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Archive for July 2nd, 2009

Is Software Installation on Linux ‘Broken’?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

 
You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that’s what happened in the Mono debate late last week. “Debian’s decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the [...]

Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

 
As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (”Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
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