Ex-Novell Developer Proves Mono is Redundant
Q: What's the first thing a Novell developer does after being made redundant?
A: He rewrites Mono apps in c++
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2009/04/01/656-porting-to-cplusplus
How strange that so many Gnome/Novell developers claimed that Mono was essential because of software like Tomboy, which is the primary reason so many distros have now become infected with Microsoft's Intellectual Monopoly Poisonware, and yet, as it turns out, rewriting Tomboy in c++ was "actually not that hard".
It's even stranger that this developer should choose to do this just a couple of days after Microsoft settle a "deal" with TomTom over patent "infringement" of their Intellectual Monopoly.
It's time certain pro-MONOpolists faced the fact that Mono only exists to serve Microsoft. Take away Novell employees' contractual obligation to follow the company's agenda, and suddenly Mono becomes redundant.
In fact it's far worse than redundant, it's dangerous. The TomTom case proved that conclusively.
See also:
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2009/02/09/650-the-good-the-bad-and-th...
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/cv/en/
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"How strange that so many Gnome/Novell developers claimed that Mono was essential because of software like Tomboy, which is the primary reason so many distros have now become infected with Microsoft's Intellectual Monopoly Poisonware, and yet, as it turns out, rewriting Tomboy in c++ was "actually not that hard"."
C# Tomboy is incredible piece of junk! It consumes as much memory as Firefox at start and when you open few notes it raises up to 70MB. All this C# (Mono) fascination is driven by MS evangelists like Icaza and co. Not by technical advantages (there are rather disadvantages).