Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

[Ian Malone]

On 5 July 2012 00:39, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz
> <mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl> wrote:
>> OK, to be more topic related: I don't condemn Java nor it's JREs etc. I
>> only think it's not most optimal choice for GNOME as well as .NET or
>> Mono.
>
> I´m not saying "hey, let´s re-code Gnome in Java". No.
>
> What I´m saying is that if someone is pushing for Gnome to become
> infected with Mono, it´s a way better choice to make it depend on the
> GPL´ed OpenJDK rather than .Net which is a Microsoft controlled
> platform.
>
> In other words, that given a choice between OpenJDK and Mono, that
> Java is the lesser evil.
>
> Anyway... I just hope that with the recent death of Moonlight (the
> SIlverlight clone)
> http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/linuxdevelopernews-81-20120601MoonlightDiscontinued.html
>
> ...and the firing of Mono devs from Attachmate after Novell let it go
> http://lxnews.org/2011/05/06/attachmate-kills-off-mono/
>
> ...that this will soon be a problem we don´t have to worry about. :-P
>
> Yet, it worries me that Microsoft might feel inclined to fund the
> Gnome Mono infection directly instead of using proxies as they did in
> the past...

You still have apparently not read the actual task list, which is
mainly focused on fixing apps that were written in Mono to start with
and getting them to work with Gnome3 and updating the language
bindings. But hey, paranoid speculation is fun.

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