Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

[Richard Vickery]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:39 PM, 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...
>
> FC
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Is it possible to quite upgrading Gnome if Microsoft does infect it? If
not, then it must be possible to write Mono out of  Gnome for our purposes.
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