Archive for category Novell
Mono Apologists on Wikipedia
Ran across another funny example of Team Apologista activity on Wikipedia today. Checking them logs For a long time, I would get a bit of traffic now and again from the Wikipedia page on Moonlight, as someone had placed my exceedingly brilliant analysis of 10 Problems with the New Moonlight Covenant. Today I was looking [...]
RMS on .NET and Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Novell, Patent System on July 15, 2010
Glyn Moody has up a short email interview with RMS on the topic of .NET and Mono (and dotGNU). Here is my favorite bit from RMS: RMS: You shouldn’t write software to use .NET. No exceptions. The basic point is that Microsoft has patents over features in .NET, and its patent promise regarding free software [...]
Novell Sells: But Who’s Buying?
With apologies to Dave Mustaine. Right, so, Novell is up for sale and there’s a couple dozen potential buyers. First, let me tell you what is not going to happen: Microsoft is not going to buy Novell. Novell has served their purpose to Microsoft, which is basically acting as a lap-dog and providing Microsoft with good [...]
My Theory: What you don’t say says a lot
Miguel de Icaza has offered up two theories on Apple’s recent change preventing non-Apple toolchain development: Theory 1: The Business Case Here, Mr. de Icaza argues that Flash’s “killer feature” is that the same code that ran on the iPhone could run on other devices, and therefore hurt Apple’s dominant position in the market. Under [...]
On being a minority
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell, Propriatery Technology on April 21, 2010
Here’s an item I was eloquently regaling the table with last night: After the whole Apple 3.3.1 “Can’t develop with non-approved toolchains” debacle a lot of people set up a Google Docs spreadsheet to list the tons of amazing apps that would be impacted by this rule change. There were calls for help all over twitter and [...]
Apple puts the smackdown on MonoTouch
… And quite a few other psuedo-platforms From the Apple 4.0 SDK (beta): 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, [...]
The Disappearing Article Mystery Solved?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell on March 26, 2010
Now that there is some explanation out there, we can examine two interesting aspects to the Disappearing Article Mystery. Be warned: this will be long and ranty. Aspect the First: The Disappearance The “disappearance” is explained by Mr. Worthington (the article author) on Twitter as so: on my recent .net evolution stories – nothing was pulled. they [...]
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