Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
And Mono is not just any other open source project. One more item of interest from the discussion is a quote from the FAQ on Mono - to which de Icaza refers people during this thread - that "When a developer contributes code to the C# compiler or the Mono runtime engine, we require that the author grants Novell the right to relicense his/her contribution under other licensing terms. This allows Novell to re-distribute the Mono source code to parties that might not want to use the GPL or LGPL versions of the code. Particularly embedded system vendors obtain grants to the Mono runtime engine and modify it for their own purposes without having to release those changes back."
Which, as another post on the same group points out, "would essentially preclude anyone from protecting their contributions, to the core of Mono, from being exploited in such a way that destroys the intended freedom of that contribution. Effectively, this is a GPL circumvention device, in the vein of Tivoisation ."
But de Icaza has his supporters who sport the same kind of blinkers he does. Whenever one begins talking about Mono, one of the first people to arrive on the scene is the GNOME Foundation media spokesman Jeff Waugh. He then starts to spin. But he always ends up claiming that de Icaza is not part of GNOME any more. Why then does Waugh turn up?
And if de Icaza is not part of GNOME any more and has no influence within the project how does he keep pushing Mono deeper and deeper into the bowels of this desktop environment?
It is high time for projects like Ubuntu and Red Hat - two distributions which depend on GNOME as the principal desktop - to start seriously looking for alternatives. This insidious infiltration of Mono is going to result in patent lawsuits one day. Microsoft cannot compete with Linux in any other way - it can only try to nobble the two companies which are out there with major portions of the operating system's marketshare.
David Bass
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