Posts Tagged FSF

Is Mono Free Software?

Consider what we mean when we think of software being Free. Does Mono meet that standard?

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FSF on Microsoft’s “Empty Promise”

The FSF speaks again on Mono, to include the Community Promise issue, and renders a verdict: The “promise is full of loopholes, and it’s nowhere near enough to make C# safe.”

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RMS says promise is “quite inadequate”.

ITWire is reporting that rms has made a preliminary statement that “Microsoft’s ‘Community Promise’ is quite inadequate”.

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Answering the call

Recently, Richard M. Stallman made a short and considered statement that free software shouldn’t depend on mono or C#.
Give it a read if you haven’t already; it is both consise and complete. There has already been an outpouring of willful misunderstanding of rms’ argument and a truly disgusting amount of personal attacks.
Even so, there is one particular [...]

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