● 12.03.08

●● Beware the Mono

Posted in Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Patents, Windows at 8:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Here is another word of warning about Mono and Novell’s other Microsoft toys, such as Moonlight.

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Microsoft, is a convicted monopolist, and at a certain level, when Mono gets to the core of the famous Linux distros., Microsoft won’t hesitate to lock the users down through patents, licenses, monopolies, and so on.. And as a result, Ubuntu won’t stay Ubuntu anymore..

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Mono, is not here to make Linux users happier. The only goal behind Mono, and Moonlight, is to give Microsoft the ability to constrain the users of Mono and all the MS applications running through it, to its patents, DRM, and all the other Monopolistic weapons of proprietary software.

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What is Miguel de Icaza up to this week? Well, yesterday he published some Windows software.

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This tool only runs on Windows as it is using the Groupwise COM APIs to fetch the calendar data. I would love to have this work on Linux if someone knows how to get to these from Unix.

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Miguel uses Microsoft Windows? █

“When you speak about interoperability [...] He meant among different versions of Windows.”

–Joe Wilcox, Microsoft Fan, 14 June 2006

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