“It’s not just an app, it’s a platform”.

• Long term goal is to write the UI in Moonlight
  • Declarative UI, canvas, scene graph, and toolkit
  • Moonlight is an Open Source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight technology … and it is awesome

“Banshee is going to do photos”

“We are re-basing the F-Spot core on top of Banshee”

And it ends with GNOME, Mono and Banshee logos.

Moonlight is of course, absolutely toxic unless you get it directly from Novell, as the so-called “covenant” specifically prohibits non-Novell distributions from distributing Moonlight. It also specifically prohibits distribution on non-PC platforms (like PDAs and so forth). The agreement – which is only with Novell anyway – also terminates on Sep. 1, 2011. And, of course it only covers Silverlight 1 and 2, both of which are already obsolete, as Microsoft has already released Silverlight 3.

In fact the Moonlight agreement is so offensive, even some high ups in Team Mono agree it is anti-community.

You want to get rid of Rhythmbox for what, now?

So there you have it – that’s what Team Mono wants in Ubuntu, by default, replacing Rhythmbox. An audio / video / picture “platform” with a built in web-browser and multiple GUIs.

This is the future of GNOME and of distributions that rely on GNOME, so don’t get all snooty just because you aren’t using Ubuntu. Layer upon layer of frameworks, Moonlight on top of Mono. One Microsoft technology stacked upon another; Microsoft development tools used in that good old fashioned Microsoft development model. Miguel told you he wanted to see GNOME 4.0 built on .NET and by god they are going to make it happen. There will be no innovation, no difference, no freedom – just slavishly copying Microsoft.

KDE peeps you are targeted in those slides too – so don’t get too comfortable pointing fingers and laughing. You can bet your bottom dollar Team Mono will be knocking on your door ever louder, ever persistant, just like they have been doing in the GNOME world.