Posts Tagged Mono
More Mono Misinformation Meticulously Dematerialized
Let’s look at some more Mono Misinformation, so the Gentle Reader can gain a sense of what one faces when braving the Wilds of Ignorance. Oh Twitter User, It’s So Cute When You Try So, as I parsed my enormous referrer logs, populated only with visits by Distinguished Guests of the Highest Caliber, I noticed [...]
On Mono Packaging
It’s almost nostalgic to be posting so often about Mono, but hopefully the Gentle Reader finds this post worth his valuable time. The Claim One of the common claims of the Mono proponent is that distribution packagers are splitting Mono into ECMA and non-ECMA packages. Debian and/or Ubuntu are commonly held up as examples in [...]
Mono: Unsafe At Any Speed
Just a follow up expanding on the recent Banshee/ECMA stuff. Warning: long stretches of file lists within! You’ll often hear Team Apologista (when cornered) say something like: “Maybe not all of Mono is covered by the ECMA standard, but all the bits used in Linux programs are.” (Here’s just one example from the recent Reddit [...]
Banshee, Mono, and Reddit
Got a lot of traffic last day or two from Reddit, because someone linked to my brilliant treatise, “Mono Criticism == Uninformed Hatred?” Now, I usually don’t comment on other sites about Mono/Moonlight because 99.99% of the arguments that come up are simply repeats. In my opinion (a polite way of me saying “It is a [...]
Mono Criticism == Uninformed Hatred?
Posted by Jason in Novell, Open Source on November 8, 2010
Guy Van Sanden has a short post, “Get the facts on mono” where he makes a few points on mono: But a lot of time has past since the original discussions and in that time, some things became very clear. Microsoft does hold patents on the .NET technology that mono is based on They made [...]
Rejecting Mono II: Banshee Boogaloo
Background #1 If you follow the so-called “Mono Debate”, one of the most common defenses – to be very generous in calling it a defense – is that users don’t care about the language, platform or other such “plumbing” that the application was built upon. Background #2 The attempts at getting Banshee to replace Rhythmbox as [...]
Rejecting Mono
Background #1 If you follow the so-called “Mono Debate”, one of the most common defenses – to be very generous in calling it a defense – is that people who object to Mono are “freetards”, or “zealots”, or otherwise ideologically driven past the point of rational thinking. The implication, often outright stated, is that opposition [...]
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