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 community in a risky direction,” RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation’s site. Of course, rather than settling the debate, Stallman’s proclamation only fanned the flames higher, resulting in a raging inferno.

And this is the best front man we can find? Good old Richard spends more time saying what is wrong as opposed to smoothing the bumps he really gets to be a old record, Baldy

Is Software Installation on Linux ‘Broken’?

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.

Yikes of all people Debian for goodness sake. But hey if it works without the problems I say let it roll. Baldy

Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru