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Stallman warns about C# and Mono dependenceStallman warns about C# and Mono dependencePosted Jul 2, 2009 6:28 UTC (Thu) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959)In reply to: Stallman warns about C# and Mono dependence by russell Parent article: Stallman warns about C# and Mono dependence
++ to you, sir.
Jo Shields really got my goat with that patronising comment. My "lowly user won't use Mono" thing is largely directed at Ubuntu and such, but at least partly at him and any others who talk/think like that.
Of course they're free to say anything they please, because they *are* putting in a lot of time and effort, no question about it.
But freedom does cut both ways, as Jake said in the article. Which means I go my way, they go theirs :-)
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Stallman warns about C# and Mono dependence Posted Jul 2, 2009 11:20 UTC (Thu) by regala (subscriber, #15745) [Link]
sorry for the previous comment
I understand that one can be upset by what Jo Shields wrote. But you failed to see WHOM he meant. He's talking about things like boycottnovell.com who are just... hmm, sorry but I feel like that this hurts even more badly us, Free Software users.
Stallman warns about C# and Mono dependence Posted Jul 2, 2009 16:38 UTC (Thu) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959) [Link]
That specific comment may have been directed at boycottnovel, but the overall tone and tenor of his long post, especially toward the end is (a) he knows better, (b) we're all fools, or worse, juveniles.
And yes, I agree we have BCN to thank for that.
And *of course* Jo is focusing on BCN -- this lets him conveniently ignore the much more silent, but much larger, group of people that just don't want mono, period, but will not say or do any of these extreme things, and will simply walk away.
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