Re: [DotGNU]Gnome to be based on .NET

[David Sugar]

First, free software is about providing free choices and tools to 
further users who have real needs.  Should we not have a free C compiler 
because there are proprietary ones?  That we may not like what Microsoft 
does does not mean we should ignore those users who would be required to 
do things using proprietary tools if we ignore their stuff.  That we can 
have them do these things on free operating systems using entirely free 
tools are even better.  When you do not have control of a language you 
do not have a community that can develop free software in the language 
of their choice, especially if there are no implimentations being 
provided for our chosen platforms.

What Miguel is intending I do not know, although personally I think it 
is a mistake the way Mono has been developed since this is being done 
using proprietary tools where it is clear by Rhys work this was not 
nessisary to do.  That he openly encourages people to use and develop 
under proprietary software and this I find very problematic.

David

Rhys Weatherley wrote:

> "William G. Thompson, Jr." wrote:
>
> > I've been lurking here for quite some time, and I must say I really don't
> > get it.  Why would anyone concerned with Freedom and Free Software
> > waste cycles helping to further the dubious agenda coming out of
> > Redmond ?!?!
>
> DotGNU is intended to provide a credible alternative to the
> stuff coming out of Redmond so that another generation of
> programmers and users don't end up getting locked into yet
> another monopoly.  This won't "further" the agenda so much
> as keep them honest about it.
>
> The GNU Project always had the goal of building a free
> alternative to Unix.  For many years, they were "wasting cycles"
> replicating what the commercial Unices were doing to further
> their own dubious agendas.  In the end, GNU won.  The
> commercial Unices are dying off one by one in the face
> of GNU/Linux.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rhys.
>
> P.S. www.japple.org crashes my GNU/Linux Netscape 4.72
> browser dead.  I had to use IE on Windows to view it.
> Could you please fix your Web site to be friendlier to
> browsers that are commonly used on free operating systems?
>
>
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