Why free software shouldn’t depend on Mono or C#
June 29th, 2009 at 11:24am dark
Some days ago, the Free Software Foundation published a short, very interesting article by Richard Stallman that claims, as summarized in the title, that the FOSS community should not pursue the patent-encumbered way of the compatibility with closed minds.
This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. Free C# implementations permit users to run their C# programs on free platforms, which is good. [...] The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn’t make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.
Full article here: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
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2 Comments Add your own
1. MRG | July 1st, 2009 at 07:37:04
It’s only FUD.
2. dark | July 1st, 2009 at 09:19:02
I’d rather say that Stallman’s article expresses his own ideas and everyone can choose to agree or not to agree with him. I do, as I forecast that his fears are not so improbable to happen.
FUD is a totally different matter.
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