On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings folks; > > As a staunch believer in Open Source in the form of linux, I've always > wondered just where M$ would attack linux, and it appears they have found an > ally and a willing vehicle in Novel, who I am told now owns gnome. > > I'll let the data in this link speak for itself. > > <http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/> > > And then offer the advice to TPTB in North Carolina, that some of the recipes > given in that link be used to expung any and all references to .NET and mono > from any distribution they can influence to do so including their own get. > If that means functions go away until they are re-written from scratch, so be > it. If we are reminded as to why occasionally, I suspect you will find the > majority of us tolerant as long as the functions don't stay on the missing > list forever. > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > <doogie_> linux takes shit and turns it into something useful. > <doogie_> windows takes something useful and turns it into shit While I don't understand, but respect RedHat's alliance with Gnome, I do wish I had the choice to have a gnome free (as in `rpm -qa | grep gnome` returns no results). At this point, this is simply not an available choice. I wish to have little to/nothing to do with Gnome as they seem intent on embracing Mono (which I understand is their own choice). Also, I wish that installing from the DVD would give a cleared choice between KDE and Gnome, and their respective packages -- removing Gnome does not remove the preselected optional gnome apps. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
