drago01 wrote:

Saying mono is evil while having DotGNU seems odd to me (http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/)

He also recommends against using DotGNU to develop your new Free Software in (because of the same patent risk as for Mono).

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I'm not familiar with the JavaScript story, but if he really recommended against using it, there was certainly a valid reason.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

That's a rant against web apps rather than against JavaScript as a language and I agree with that one too: web apps are a way to push proprietary software onto people who claim to use only Free Software. In most cases, a portion of the code runs on your browser (that's where JavaScript comes into play), but is often licensed under a proprietary license, another portion runs on the web server and is completely out of your control (so it's even more proprietary than the average proprietary software). If you're using a proprietary web app, you're NOT using Free Software, but proprietary software, even if the browser you're using is Free Software.

Kevin Kofler