Comments on: Ubuntu – Mono = Chicken

By: uname

uname — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:01:01 +0000

@Koen

Mono and java are slow and they consume much more memory then C++ apps. The best would be to made Linux apps in QT/C++. However, there’s some MS/Novell lobby to make Linux desktop – Gnome in this case, dependent on mono and to spread FUD about KDE which is QT based and far more advanced.

By: rgz

rgz — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:20:44 +0000

A simplified version of what’s happening seems to be like this.

Microsoft won’t license but instead promised not to sue .NET implementations as long as you can prove you only implement the minimum of standard and only for as long as MS owns the patents.

Then promptly proceeded to sell the patents in secret to patent trolls – thus voiding the promise – but sold them to open source supporters by accident. We were lucky.

Mono supporters say that we have nothing to fear despite the well informed Novell paying $40, 000, 000 to avoid getting sued.

I might be confusing Mono with Moonlight there but the point is that there’s nothing clear on the matter MS refuses to clarify and mono supporters insist us we ignore patents exist altogether.

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By: Wesley

Wesley — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:13:42 +0000

I personally don’t like Mono that much, but that only has a strict technical reason behind it. I don’t really understand why Mono is “bad” in an ethical sense.

By: Koen

Koen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:16:05 +0000

ahha… now i finally get it

By: Dan Serban

Dan Serban — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:33:03 +0000

@koen,

To understand the Mono debate and why Java isn’t an issue, you first have to ask the following question:

Is “X Technology” a contributing factor to “Y Corporation” ‘s unethical platform monopoly remaining entrenched?

Two flavors of that question:
1) “X Technology” = Mono and “Y Corporation” = MS
2) “X Technology” = Java and “Y Corporation” = Oracle

By: koen

koen — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:50:19 +0000

i do not really understand why people are anti-mono. its slow, but isn’t java also slow? and why isn’t there any anti-java movement?

please tell me why people are against mono. i do not understand it currently.