Novell/Microsoft's .NET/C-Sharp Monopoly

[Jookia]

I've been reading boycottnovell papers and have been wondering if any of it is true, and if it is, how much of Microsoft/mono been removed from Fedora 11/12? Also should I switch to KDE/XFCE to avoid GNOME's infestation or is that now mono-free?

Please explain the status, greatly aprreciated.

[Jookia]

Shameless bump.

[bob]

You really need to approach the Devs on this. Click the Fedora Project Jump up there and join one of the mailing lists to get to them. They wander around here from time to time, but that's a much better way.

[Simian Man]

Originally Posted by Jookia

I've been reading boycottnovell papers and have been wondering if any of it is true

Very little of it has any basis in reality. C# and the CLI are an ECMA standard language and therefore free for anyone to implement and Mono is a completely free implementation. There is no harm using the language or the run-time. The only thing that I can see being a feasible problem are Windows libraries like WinForms, but no Mono applications that I use use that; they use GTK# instead.

I know this is a contentious topic, but I feel it's been blown grossly out of proportion. Even if Microsoft does somehow try some sneaky illegal business, it won't hurt you as an end user. Who it will hurt is developers that put time into projects that use Mono.

Originally Posted by Jookia

and if it is, how much of Microsoft/mono been removed from Fedora 11/12? Also should I switch to KDE/XFCE to avoid GNOME's infestation or is that now mono-free?

It is quite possible to run Gnome without mono. All you have to do is run "yum remove mono*" as root. I don't know offhand if the Gnome spin comes with it or not, but if it does that will remove it easily. You will just be missing out on some great Gnome apps like Banshee, F-Spot and Gnome-Do.

[Wayne]

yum remove libgdiplus removes everything.... Problem solved.