All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop 443
rysiek writes "A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole of MonoDevelop is now 'free' of GPL-licensed code. 'MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).'"
Debugger (Score:5, Funny)
good start! (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, Miguel (Score:5, Funny)
Bill's still happily married. I really don't think this is working.
Re:Why doesn't Miguel just go to work for Microsof (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why doesn't Miguel just go to work for Microsof (Score:3, Funny)
OpenOffice.org is your TEXT EDITOR? Oh boy.
Well at least he can do his own custom syntax highlighting without messing around in the "Preferences".
Re:Now for business use (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I know it's now LGPL but I couldn't resist ... (Score:1, Funny)
It's like the Land Before Time but with less anal sex!
Re:Why doesn't Miguel just go to work for Microsof (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that's a pretty decent text editor. I prefer MS Paint.
Re:Why doesn't Miguel just go to work for Microsof (Score:2, Funny)
Alas, Mono is still a part of the default Gnome distribution, just so they can have a note taking applet which takes 189MB memory (counting libraries used by it and no other process) and takes several seconds to start on beefy hardware while the C++ port of that very same code uses 5MB and starts near-instantly.
So, at last Novel achieved the real objective of .NET? - to be a complete replacement of the Java technology! - even Microsoft could not do that! bah!
Re:Does anyone really use it? (Score:4, Funny)
C++ WxWidgets was a niche solution for a temporary problem. It's basically a portable copy of MFC with a few extra features.
I got all excited about cross-platform GUI work, bought the book, got 3 chapters in, and all of a sudden had a huge WTF moment. Seriously, it was like looking at a painting of attractive women bathing, then you realize they are guys, and they are having sex and killing each other in the most creative ways imaginable. Wondering how I misinterpreted it at first, trying to see the original conception again, and feeling suddenly awkward about the erection is about as close of a metaphor as I can give to that moment.
With scripting languages I'm sure it's all cool and stuff, but for C++ you'd be better off holding someone's grandmother for a Linux GUI ransom. Or, if you're really super crazy, try Qt instead.