Sam Varghese
Friday, 03 July 2009 23:09
Opinion and Analysis
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You don’t want to keep a free implementation of a language on your machine, but you are okay with downloading off bittorrent and aren’t worried about getting sued.
You don't download off bittorrent; that's a protocol which can be used to download with different applications, all of which use it. But not all of us download, old chap, some of us don't bother. Your worldview is a bit narrow, methinks.
GNote represents the limit of FUD to me. Tomboy is awesome and Sandy Armstrong doubly so.
Gnote (note the capitalisation) is a port of Tomboy in C++/Gtk. The acronym FUD translates to Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. How are the two connected? Hubert Figueire created Gnote for his own good reasons - but then that wouldn't be of interest to you, would it? You are such a fount of wisdom you don't even need to find out his motivations, you just spout.
I’m no expert on patents, but “There might be risk” sounds just like “There might not be risk”. At the end the question is whether it’s finally worth it.
Actually, you are not an expert on anything and this post more than proves it.
Please read Jo Shield’s article if my intellectually devoid rant hasn’t convinced you.
Jo Shields? I dealt with his specious arguments
here.
On Mono and C#: Have a look at gnome-do, which runs on mono(http://do.davebsd.com). That thing you’re feeling when you open the link is pure undiluted lust lust.
I'm not sure what "lust lust" is; maybe something which they teach you at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. But software which is likely to be encumbered with Microsoft patents only results in one emotion for me - fear.
Firefox has 80,000 lines of code. The MonoDevelop project has 800,000 lines. The Mono project (just mono) has 8 f***ing million lines, let’s not forget the debugger, compiler and gtk# bindings. (ohloh.net)
And your point is? More lines of code, better software? People like you are probably the main reason why Microsoft developed Windows Vista. It has 50 million lines of code, I'm told. That means it must be at the very apex of software development, what?
I have met the nicest and most helpful people I know on the Mono project. Even the most busy and experienced of devs (hello mhutch and lluis!) take time off to help (and spoonfeed) me whenever I need.
I think you should get out a bit more. There are much more senior FOSS people who also happen to be better coders - like Andrew Tridgell, for example - who are not merely helpful but also people of high integrity. The Mono project is a bit short on that last ingredient.
C# is plain awesome. I used to think it was bloated and MS specific (just like most of you), but an awesome standard library, coupled with type safety, innovative features and tight IDE integration make it a killer platform for development.
Awesome. Rocks. Those stale words seem to be a repetitious part of the vocabulary of anyone associated with de Icaza and his projects. Of course, the rest of the world that does not use Mono is well behind the eight ball when it comes to development. Java, Python, C++, C - those are for the uneducated masses. Only C# is worthy of royalty - like de Icaza, Shields and, of course, Sanjeev.
I could go on about how blissful an experience it is to write code in a full featured, statically typed language. But you’re too full of propoganda to listen.
The word is "propaganda". In case you are unaware, there is a very basic feature called spellcheck with every editor which you would be well advised to use. And the rest of the world which has been programming so far has never experienced this bliss. Just you. Or is it something that only C# brings about?
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