On 07/19/2010 12:46 AM, openbala wrote: > One news worthy event that happened on July 17th is that, the licenses > of DLR (dynamic language runtime), IronRuby and IronPython has changed > from MS-PL to Apache-2[1] >
Yes, this is indeed a good move but one must understand the core technologies it relies on are still not under a open source license. If Microsoft chooses to release it under a license like Apache which includes explicit patent grants, then it would resolve the patent debate. > Microsoft so far hasn't pounced on Mono like they did with SalesForce. > Infact, Miguel got the Microsoft MVP award in 2010. > See the history of the MP3 or GIF format to understand why this is not a assurance at all. > About the profitability and adaptability of Mono, this might be a > totally different thing, looks time Mono is at least claiming that it > is being well adopted [3]. I guess Ubuntu still ships with Tomboy > Notes installed (not sure) which means that they aren't gravely > concerned. Not sure about Fedora, as I used only Fedora KDE. > Being well adopted and profitable are two different things. Fedora does not include any mono apps by default. What is included is Gnote, Shotwell etc. Ubuntu is replacing F-Spot by Shotwell in their next release. I would also note that Beagle has become unmaintained and the latest release of openSUSE replaces it by Tracker. The amount of adoption seems to be getting lower in fact. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
