Posts Tagged mono

Quick! Change the sheets!

So our Strange Bedfellow, he of “Fuck you Richard Stallman” fame, fears he was taken “out of context” and risks besmirchment!
Let’s see what a few days of reflection have taught our young padawan.

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Here we go again – why mono apologetics suck

It’s taken me a while to get around to de-constructing the latest magnum opus of the mono apologists, Here we go again – why mono doesn’t suck. Be forewarned, this will be long and tedious. I normally want to keep things a bit more light and “bite-sized”, but for some reason people seem to think [...]

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Strange Bedfellows

One of the uncomfortable aspects of being a mono supporter is it puts you in an odd position in the FLOSS community. For example, you just might find [[someone obnoxious]] “helping” the cause.

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Aggresive Perfector

A common argument you’ll hear from mono apologists: “Microsoft doesn’t use patents aggressively”. Let’s take a look at that for a second.

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Who’s that knocking at my door?

Many mono apologists like to portray critics as fanatics, aggressively opposed to anything Microsoft-related.
Here’s the thing about that:

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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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