One of the tricky things about mono apologists sometimes they let a little lie slip out, it turns into a talking point, and when the lie is corrected there’s never any correction forthcoming – and of course the mono troops fighting the good fight never pick up on the correction. No time for facts, have [...]
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In reaction to the severe criticism of his ill-considered “Fuck You, Richard Stallman” post, [[Someone who really should have known better]] is taking down his blog and “going completely offline”. [[CACHE REMOVED]]
One of the amusing, and sad, things about mono apologists is they often find themselves doing things like defending Microsoft, hating on the GPL, or even adopting Microsoft-like FUD tactics. Take for example, the reaction throughout the mono community when Gnote, a C++ port of Tomboy, was introduced.
Jo Shields is an active mono apologist, especially in the Ubuntu community. Often, after he posts something on his blog, the talking points go endlessly around the Ubuntu Forums and related sites. Take for example, his brilliantly argued ZOMG! TEH PATENTZ!
Settle up
Jul 4
Bruce Byfield has a long article on the mono debate. Mr. Byfield has written on mono before, and while I don’t agree with everything he writes, he doesn’t simply parrot press releases and is worth reading. Since this is a long piece, I suggest reading it first, and I’ll just raise a few points of [...]
Airtight Logic
Jul 4
Here is Miguel de Icaza’s response to Stallmans’ concerns: “on RMS and Mono, let me just paraphrase Confucius and say “20 million .NET developers don’t give a shit.”
Baker’s Dozen
Jul 3
Over at the ByteBaker, Shrutarshi Basu has an interesting commentary on the latest mono issue. Worth a read, and of course I’ll provide my commentary as well for you, Gentle Reader.
Brainstorm!
Jul 3
Ubuntu Brainstorm is an area set aside for users to give feedback to the Ubuntu developers on ideas they have on improving Ubuntu. I stopped by today and noticed a few ideas related to mono – let’s take a look at what some Ubuntu users think!
In the ghetto
Jul 3
Ubuntu Forums does it again! Now you are free to discuss mono in a single designated thread in the sub-forum of a sub-forum of a sub-forum.
Disagreeing with rms
Jul 3
Over on Safe as Milk, Dave Neary has an interesting piece where he disagrees with rms on mono. Dave is a high muckety-muck in GNOME, and a lot of people, including yours truly, get very alert when “GNOME” and “mono” get used together, so it’s worth a read to see what he says!
