shameful censoring of mono opposition

Remco remco47 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 14:30:12 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mackenzie Morgan<macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I misunderstand why the term "application framework" is any better
> than a pile of libraries and languages that work together, but I think it'd be
> extremely difficult for Microsoft to try to argue that .NET is older than GTK+,
> Qt, C, C++, and Python.

We're still being a Microsoft technology user, which is what Mark
Shuttleworth didn't want, and is the reason why Wine is not included
in Ubuntu. Ubuntu is supposed to be a collection of amazing free
software, not a gratis Microsoft Windows. Consider that the Windows
platform nowadays *is* .NET. Win32 is deprecated.

Remco




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