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MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

Posted Mar 11, 2008 16:26 UTC (Tue) by sylware (subscriber, #35259)
In reply to: MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld) by jamesh
Parent article: MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

>This is a strawman argument.  No one is forcing people to use Mono to the exclusion of
alternative languages.  I gave you examples of Python applications that are part of the GNOME
desktop release so it is clearly not current policy or what I suggested.

Reread my postings: brute forcing mono/python in "official gnome" *does* exclude all others.
It's facts. It does favor way too much those instead of all others. It's called brute forced
popularity and deployment of huge bloats.

>I'm promoting the use of languages other than C on the desktop. I am not sure why you find
this point of view offensive.

Promote the language you want for desktop user level application, I have nothing against that,
on the contrary,... till it's not brute forced in core "official" gnome and till I can call
your FOO language code from C (without becoming crazy) and the other way around.

Flying away.


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MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

Posted Mar 11, 2008 17:06 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

>Reread my postings: brute forcing mono/python in "official gnome" *does* exclude all others.
It's facts.

Please explain the above statement (and only the above statement with no digressions, please)
using simple logic with one subject/verb logical statement per line.

Because I did reread your postings and I do not understand your argument that other languages
are excluded.

MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

Posted Mar 11, 2008 19:41 UTC (Tue) by sylware (subscriber, #35259) [Link]

I think all the reasons are explained in the thread.
Moreover I flew away...

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