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Reopening iFolderReopening iFolderPosted Apr 30, 2009 1:49 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227)Parent article: Reopening iFolder
I hate to say it, but they'll get more support if they move away from Mono. Too many people are still paranoid about it, unfortunately.
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Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 5:41 UTC (Thu) by ivazquez (guest, #50782) [Link]
But they're not. Which is reason enough to them to not move.
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 7:02 UTC (Thu) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959) [Link]
I hate to make this a "yes. No. yes too..." kind of discussion, but I will not use Mono, and will not allow any mono libs on any system that I am responsible for. I will not use Ubuntu or indeed most Gnome-based distros; sticking to the KDE types instead.
I have been told that this is FUD; I smile and reply that if so, there is a certain poetic justice in it :-)
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 7:15 UTC (Thu) by ivazquez (guest, #50782) [Link] You don't really think you're safe, do you?
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 21:30 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Who uses synapse?
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 23:12 UTC (Thu) by ivazquez (guest, #50782) [Link]
Sometimes "who uses it?" is a less important question than "does it exist?". I'm fairly sure that KDE will be used by an increasing number of Windows expatriates that know C#.
Reopening iFolder Posted May 1, 2009 4:38 UTC (Fri) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959) [Link]
...and if and when that happens, I will move to something else.
Right now, a default install (important to me since I maintain a handful of machines for friends, relations, etc) of most KDE-based distros does not include mono. With Gnome I have to go in and manually remove stuff, which is a pain.
There'll always be choice. Even if there is some application for which the only available/usable program is in Mono, the ultimate choice is with me, whether I use it or do without.
As for safety (your earlier comment), I don't know what you mean. Do you mean safety in a legal sense of some kind? I live in a country where most software (outside corporate use) is illegal. I could pirate anything I want and blog about it and nothing would happen.
My attitude is not prompted by worries of any kind. This is purely principle. Hence my statement about the final choice being mine: use it or do without.
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 14:19 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
Samba and Wine have more reason to worry than Mono. LLVM probably violates more virtual machine and compiler patents.
I think using an easy development language like C# will attract more developers than it will turn away.
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 14:59 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Don't get me wrong, I agree. I'm frustrated by the fact that so many distros and users avoid Mono like the plague. That doesn't magically make the paranoia irrelevant, though. :/
Reopening iFolder Posted Apr 30, 2009 19:49 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
It's their loss.
They need to look at things rationally and understand that, yes, many things that we take for granted and use in Linux have originated in Microsoft.
Take, for example, AJAX. You know, the technology that is going to finally 'rid us of the Windows desktop' is going to be 'web-based applications'. What allows these things to function is the ability to asynchronously send information to and from the web server using XML objects and Javascript.
You know.. to keep things moving and information being sent to and from your browser without having to refresh for every change. Of course the company that first introduced the async XML calls to the browsers for the purposes of doing online applications was, oh the horror, Microsoft. And those calls are now 'web standards'.
Go figure.
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