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Time to Dump?

Time to Dump?

Posted Nov 4, 2006 8:07 UTC (Sat) by epeeist (guest, #1743)
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Is it time for distributions to consider whether to get rid of anything that de Icaza and Friedman had a hand in?


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No

Posted Nov 5, 2006 2:30 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Those guys contributed a whole hell of a lot of useful code, and were not in on the Novell/Microsoft negotiation. They didn't just do Mono, they did a hell of a lot of Gnome code.

It would appear that Mono remains under the same cloud as before, but nothing has really changed.

No

Posted Nov 5, 2006 2:39 UTC (Sun) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]

Those guys contributed a whole hell of a lot of useful code, and were not in on the Novell/Microsoft negotiation.

How do you know that those two were not part of the negotiation, or did not promote the idea within Novell? We do know that Miguel has stepped up unabashedly as an apologist for the pact:
"today we have secured a peace of mind for Novell customers that might have been worried about possible patent infringements open source deployments" -- Miguel de Icaza

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