[Fsf-friends] KDE vs GNOME war

[Sriram N]

--- Sandip Bhattacharya <sandip at lug-delhi.org> wrote:


> I find this quite amusing, you keep harping on freedom, and free software,
> but 
> conveniently dont mention the fact that a significant effort of Gnome is 
> being spent on development using Mono, which is based on a non-free language!
> 

I'd say there's nothing wrong with developing Gnome using Mono, which is based
upon some standards - ECMA standards. There was a lot of hue and cry over the
patents issue, but this seems to have largely settled down. One can use name
spaces and packages that are non-MS - GTK#, for e.g.

Also, isn't dbus supposed to be a "unifying architecture" ? I'd intended to
explore this sometime, but I just haven't made the time for such stuff yet. :(

Meanwhile, carry on with the discussion, please. There's lots of food for
thought here.

-- Sriram


	
		
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