In <[🔎] 4A6B3B97.60404@gmail.com>, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: >As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries >regarding mono inclusion in main >and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: > >1) I feel like microsoft is not clear about the license issues. Do you have some evidence that Microsoft has *any* copyright, patent, or trademark claim on the code in Mono? >2) MS is a monopoly in desktop OS market and its monopoly aggresive >behavior has been proven >in courts and is evident every day. see netbook market for example. >Wouldnt a pro-ms pro-monopoly move harm the excellent name Debian has >build? I don't see how this has anything to do with the Free Software status of Mono and that is all that matters for sorting software into main/contrib/non-free. Free Software that does not depend on non-Free Software goes in main, Free Software that depends on non-Free Software goes in contrib, and non-Free Software goes into non-free. >3) Is essential to me and the way i perceive the debian identity to has >a clear position out of middleware rivalries of >multinationals companies not favoring or taking sides. I don't see how providing Mono puts Debian "in middleware rivalries" anymore than providing Perl, Python, Ruby, Rails, Java, TomCat, GlassFish. >+1 for a voting procedure. I'm pretty sure this is the wrong place for that, anyway. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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