● 06.29.09

●● GNOME’s Evolution Proceeds as Planned?

Posted in GNOME, Microsoft, Mono, Novell at 7:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“I’d like to see Gnome applications written in .NET in version 4.0 – no, version 3.0. But Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET.”

–“Gnome to be based on .NET – de Icaza”, 2002

Summary: The prophecy of Novell’s Miguel de Icaza is becoming true

Today in the news:

GNOME 3.0 may have more Mono appsThe next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.[...]Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, Fedora, recently decided to throw out Mono altogether from its default install, and replaced Tomboy with Gnote, a recently created port of Tomboy.

What is Novell doing to GNU/Linux? Should one buy Microsoft coupons or Novell's SUSE?

Microsoft sees itself losing (“We are not on a path to win against Linux,” wrote Jim Allchin), so it is using Novell as Plan B. █

“[The Novell/Microsoft package] provides IP peace of mind for organizations operating in mixed source environments.”

–Ian Bruce, Novell’s PR Director

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