tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238369631860217657.post2523852416013467713..comments2009-06-05T10:54:37.755+02:00wzzrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018553938692178557noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238369631860217657.post-49825705120369906202009-06-05T10:54:37.755+02:002009-06-05T10:54:37.755+02:00@David: Sorry, I had too little time to properly answer you, but here goes.<br /><br />No, I am not a programmer, mainly. No, I haven&#39;t created *any* large, desktop-class applications on Linux.<br /><br />But let me ask you a question right back: does it matter anything if I didn&#39;t? <br /><br />You, with a whole herd of other Mono enthusiasts, make it sound like the alleged ease of programming with Mono is on its own reason enough to embrace it. Personally, I do not think so. <br /><br />So, let&#39;s take this to the legal level this discussion belongs to be at. Try, for example, to read this http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25215/1090/1/0/, without dismissing it as FUD beforehand.<br /><br />And then please come up with some non-technical, non-FUD-screaming arguments as to why I, Sam Varghese, and a host of other people would be wrong.wzzrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018553938692178557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238369631860217657.post-32148071402282998982009-05-03T23:55:08.748+02:002009-05-03T23:55:08.748+02:00Yup, I feel the same - almost. I don't get the whole interoperability argument either. <br /><br />I mean, I do think the work being done on Mono is great, in that it should allow people who wish to use any .NET apps that they depend on, to mix these in with their other apps on non-Windows platforms. Like mp3 and dvd-video, .NET is a de-facto standard which cannot be ignored, and it makes sense to facilitate their use. <br /><br />That they're patent-encumbered or covered by DRM-legislation is a fact we have to deal with. If one day the patent-owners try exercising their rights and succeed, well, tough luck for all of us - no more interoperability, no more mp3 listening, no more fancy .NET apps (though I can't think of any I'd miss, lol). If that should happen, we only lose usage rights of which it wasn't really clear whether we ever had them. <br /><br />But if you build newly developed FOSS apps like Tomboy, Banshee, and F-Spot on a patent-encumbered platform... then the whole argument above just doesn't work!<br /><br />So to me making Mono available in the distro seems worthwile, but providing Mono apps as the default options does not.oeihttp://oei.yungchin.nl/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7238369631860217657.post-22921986761436370112009-05-01T04:27:18.126+02:002009-05-01T04:27:18.126+02:00Just one question -- are you a programmer? Which large, desktop-class applications have you created on Linux?Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00158778621692437249noreply@blogger.com