Posts Tagged Mono
de Icaza: “We collaborate with Microsoft”
Visual Studio Magazine, of the Redmond Developer Network, has up a short interview with Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza. There’s not much to see here, but I think some minor points shine through despite Mr. de Icaza’s best efforts. Consider the recent “busted myth” that Microsoft is involved in Mono development (which even in the myth-buster piece [...]
A developer looks at VMware/Novell
Here is an interesting post considering the potential VMWare/Novell deal from Manny Vellon the CTO of Likewise. Mr. Vellon professes to be a programmer at heart (albeit a VB programmer) and his opinion here is worth the read. Here’s the part that jumped out at me: Second, we needed a toolset for implementing and calling SOAP web services. [...]
Novell in a two-part Fire Sale
The New York Post is reporting that Novell has “reached a deal in principle to sell itself in two parts” in the next month, culminating with Novell being de-listed. According to the Post, the breakdown is SUSE to a “strategic buyer” and the rest to a private-equity firm. Edited 17SEP2010: The Wall Street Journal is [...]
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 [...]
Ubuntu Making Moves
Posted by Jason in Free Software on June 14, 2010
Perhaps it’s just the sources I have, but it seems even the smallest decision from Ubuntu swamps Linux news. Most of the time this is a wash, but sometimes there is an interesting bit or two. Often it’s something I don’t agree with — which if I then comment about I am taken to task by [...]
F-Spot Out of Ubuntu
Posted by Jason in Free Software on May 14, 2010
Fantastic news! I first caught wind of this from I’Been to Ubuntu: F-Spot has been voted off the island by developers at UDS this week. The Mono application will be replaced by Shotwell, written in Vala. Since the only other Mono application I see in the default install is Tomboy, would it make sense to conspire to kick [...]
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