Re: About GUI and lisps...

Rob Thorpe wrote:
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Using a cross platform GUI library like Tk or GTk seems less bother.

They also have the advantage of not having a sword hanging
over their heads. Last I checked, Mono was under enough
suspicion of patent-encumberences that Microsoft could make a
reasonable lawsuit (they won't win, but that wouldn't be the
point) and bog down the effort and any software that had it as
a dependency in court for a few years.

When enough free software has Mono as a dependency, it
is possible that Microsoft stalls their effort by pointing
out patents it owns that Mono "might" be violating.

(*) Note that Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) has become a
standard component of GNOME 2.16 and is going to be thus part of many
linux distributions out there.


Sadly; it looked like it was going that way for several
years now, so I stopped using gnome in 2000. Anyone who
is a free(libre) software advocate should disregard
Mono.

goose,

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