Re: About GUI and lisps...

goose wrote:
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.

That whole thing has been playing out for a few years now. RedHat and
Sun (obviously) have always pushed Java, but Mono has gotten a lot of
interest because of Ximian(Novell) and that it's actually open source
and Java isn't. Yeah, you can worry about getting hit by a bus
everyday, but most (if not all) of the Gnome bits are under ECMA
anyway. MS has known about Mono for all these years and done nothing
(if not tacitly supported by MS .NET developers).


(*) 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.


People already made up their minds on the issue, and your suggestion is
irrelevant to them. The holy rollers are a small minority in open
source.


goose,

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