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His work is helping Microsoft and their software patent strategy. He's being well-paid to damage the cause of software freedom. We should all Boycott Novell. It's not a joke.
I didn't lose GIMP or Gnome. There are variants of packages with similar names which have subtle differences. I got rid of junk with no loss of utility to my system. I agree with the guys at BoycottNovell.com. Miguel is making bad choices. I don't want to have any of Microsoft/Novell's patent-trolling, lawsuit-bait code on my machine.
Still, it is an indecent way to address the man.
Is the code bad code? You may have reservations about Miguel's motives or general approach, but he hardly seems technically inept. So I would accept a headline saying "Make your distro free of ethically unacceptable code", but this one is hard to swallow.
Its obvious that interpreted or very high level languages are more productive. Even though I personally don't like them (consume more memory etc), I will use whatever program I find useful, regardless of what language it was written in, as long as my computer can run it. Hurray Tomboy!
dehumanizer
16 years 19 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago
Is this a guide to uninstall
Is this a guide to uninstall GNOME or wtf? :-)
devnull
16 years 19 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago
No, it's just a snarky
No, it's just a snarky posting on how to block Miguel's injection of Microsoft's b.s. in linux. It's just to be a tongue in cheek humorous how-to.
topyli
16 years 19 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago
Not very funny. :(
Not very funny. :(
Balzac
16 years 19 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago
Miguel should quit Novell and stop damaging his credibility.
His work is helping Microsoft and their software patent strategy. He's being well-paid to damage the cause of software freedom. We should all Boycott Novell. It's not a joke.
devnull
16 years 19 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago
well, some people thought
well, some people thought so.
Balzac
16 years 19 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago
I ripped the Mono junk code. Gnome remains.
I didn't lose GIMP or Gnome. There are variants of packages with similar names which have subtle differences. I got rid of junk with no loss of utility to my system. I agree with the guys at BoycottNovell.com. Miguel is making bad choices. I don't want to have any of Microsoft/Novell's patent-trolling, lawsuit-bait code on my machine.
xo3180
16 years 19 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago
You lose one or two apps in
You lose one or two apps in the process, but nothing major. On Hardy I think it was f-spot and tomboy that were removed.
mjjzf
16 years 19 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago
Still -
Still, it is an indecent way to address the man.
Is the code bad code? You may have reservations about Miguel's motives or general approach, but he hardly seems technically inept. So I would accept a headline saying "Make your distro free of ethically unacceptable code", but this one is hard to swallow.
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cvasilak
16 years 19 weeks 3 days 2 min ago
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I think the title is too rough considering the amount of work Miguel and others have done to Linux and to free and open source software in general.
At the end of the day if you don't like it don't use it but please do not criticize people like that.
Christos
PS I don't currently develop apps using the Mono stack, I use other technologies but its good to have options.
fanen
16 years 19 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago
two thumbs down
Its obvious that interpreted or very high level languages are more productive. Even though I personally don't like them (consume more memory etc), I will use whatever program I find useful, regardless of what language it was written in, as long as my computer can run it. Hurray Tomboy!
fortune: do unto others before they do to you