On 06/29/2009 08:49 PM, drago01 wrote:

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

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drago01 wrote:

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Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS.

So what? His concerns are real.

Depends on how you read them and whether you agree with him or not. And for most cases I don't.

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

Did you even read the article? I don't see where FSF cliams mono is evil. Their position is far more nuanced than that. What FSF is suggesting is to treat Mono purely as a (legacy) compatibility layer and not use it for new applications.

"This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. Free C# implementations permit users to run their C# programs on free platforms, which is good. (The GNU Project has an implementation of C# also, called Portable.NET.) Ideally we want to provide free implementations for all languages that programmers have used.

The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn't make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk."

Rahul