Richard Stallman says No to Mono.

twitter writes: "There's been a lot of fuss about mono lately. After SCO and M$ suing over FAT patents, you would think avoiding anything M$ would be a matter of common sense. RMS now steps into the fray to warn against a serious mistake.

Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. .... This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. ... [writing and using applications in mono] is taking a gratuitous risk.

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You know, twitter...

[tepples]

You'll get taken more seriously if you use "Microsoft" instead of "M$" in the body of posts. Sure, M$ is OK in 50-character subject lines, but what's the point of saving seven bytes in the body if the body can be a hundred to a thousand times that big?

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[koreaman]

Interestingly, I just found in a Twitter journal entry that he attacks you (tepples) for being "friends with troll koreaman". What the HELL? I didn't even know Twitter knew who I was. I feel almost honored to be on his shit list though.

By the way, my primary computer is a linux-from-scratch machine with exactly one piece of non-free software installed on it: nvidia drivers. I'm not an M$ shill; fuck you, Twitter.

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[koreaman]

Ah yes, the days of bringing truth to Twitter's journal. I had forgotten I used to do that. I'm actually 19 years old, so maybe we can write it off as me being young and childish? I don't know -- how easily I can get away with that excuse depends on how many years ago it happened, I suppose. Either way, preposterous to think I am an MS shill. I use Linux. I use virtually only Free Software at home. I have even contributed an (albeit small) bit of code to a free software project that competes directly with a