shameful censoring of mono opposition

[Paige Thompson]

Someone from Access chimed in on this one, glad he's getting paid to dick
around like this.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Remco <remco47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Derek Broughton<derek at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
> > Remco wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > It's not?  When did that happen?
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy wine
> > wine:
> >  Installed: (none)
> >  Candidate: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
> >  Version table:
> >     1.0.1-0ubuntu6 0
> >        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
> > --
> > derek
>
> Oh, so now Ubuntu also comes with Windows Media, H.264 and DivX? You
> can find those in the repositories as well. Maybe we should call
> MPEG-LA that there is big patent infringement going on here...
>
> Of course not. The repositories are not part of the default install,
> and should not be treated as such.
>
> Remco
>
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