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Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption (SearchOpenSource)

Posted Feb 11, 2006 12:05 UTC (Sat) by sylware (subscriber, #35259)
In reply to: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption (SearchOpenSource) by tajyrink
Parent article: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption (SearchOpenSource)

Don't forget that there are dirac and snow video codecs which use wavelets.
Speaking sabotage: I'm a gnome user, and mono/.net is a kind of trojan horse. You can clearly see the will to make gnome depend on mono/.net uselessware. For instance, we had a very good seed for a "more than usefull" picture manager, gthumb, but their is a strong will to let this project die in order to promote f-spot (the bloated mono one). The XGL demos pushes f-spot forward.
Moreover you can see some strange opinion switch over, like Havoc Penington who was *really* against inclusion of this "strategically M$ driven framework", and now he is almost recommending to include it.
Something is happening. I feel the shadow of M$ behind Novell.
Additionally, it's a commercial handicap: on a project here what I got from the boss: "Want to write a mono app? Why? M$ is the leader of .net, better go with them. And .net 2.0 is about to come, mono is obsolete, I'm sorry my friend, but mono=.net--"! Commercially speaking, adopting mono/.net is sabotage.

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Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption (SearchOpenSource)

Posted Feb 12, 2006 4:31 UTC (Sun) by hp (subscriber, #5220) [Link]

I don't know what you mean about me changing my opinion, I haven't really said anything one way or the other in a long time (that I remember at least).

Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption (SearchOpenSource)

Posted Feb 16, 2006 11:51 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Stop disrupting a nice conspiracy theory with your blasted 'facts'. ;)