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.
Posts Tagged mono
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 [...]
Strange Bedfellows
Jul 2
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.
Aggresive Perfector
Jul 2
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.
Many mono apologists like to portray critics as fanatics, aggressively opposed to anything Microsoft-related.
Here’s the thing about that:
Answering the call
Jul 2
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 [...]
