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by jstedfast 15y ago
> not only do they refuse, they are getting rid of all GPLv2 code in favor of BSD code. This claim is completely fictitious. We started an effort a few years ago to migrate Mono Develop code to LGPL and MIT/X11 (not BSD) from GPL. Our
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by jstedfast 15y ago
We don't own any patents on Mono, so licensing it under GPLv3 would not provide any additional patent protection to anyone. That said, the code donated by Microsoft has been under Apache2 which does provide patent protection, just like GPLv
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by jstedfast 15y ago
Hey, Xamarin dev here... Not that I want to defend Diablo-D3 (he's a troll), I do want to make a few slight corrections to your comment. 1. You are correct in that Microsoft's .NET VM performs better than Mono overall (at least in the gener
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Introducing CoffeeKit - a JavaScript binding for iOS(toshokelectric.com)
8 points by jstedfast 15y ago|0 comments
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Xamarin Brings Mono to IceCream Sandwich(datamation.com)
3 points by jstedfast 15y ago|2 comments
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by jstedfast 15y ago
It's pretty trivial to bind MIME C-libraries like GMime for use in any language on any platform. http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ It's a high-level library (unlike most other MIME libraries) which makes constructing and parsing MIME t
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by jstedfast 15y ago
> But 'regular' people are loving the Galaxy S 2 Are you sure of that? I can't imagine it's true, or there would be a hell of a lot more sales of it than there are...
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by jstedfast 15y ago
> Better Linux connectivity. Very few people actually run Linux on their desktops. If you are one of those people, then yes, I can see this being an advantage. Otherwise... not so much. I'm a Linux guy and when I had an iPhone, I used t
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by jstedfast 15y ago
Lucky to have such good libraries available? Are you KIDDING ME!?!? I grew up in relatively poor small towns most of my life, where the town library was lucky if it had more than a thousand books. Certainly had no internet. But you know wha
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by jstedfast 15y ago
Jesus Christ, are you my mirror image!? Seriously. I'm so sick of people whining about how I'm "so lucky" to have my job. To hear these people talk about how lucky I am is a huge fucking insult because they act is if it just fell in my lap.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
I can't believe you got downvoted. No, wait, yes I can... this is HN, domain of the liberal "it's society's fault" left.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
This.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
"But what you do expect is a government that isn't run by the special interests." -- Barack Obama LOL. Says the man who gets money from special interest groups. The liberal left are all about special interest groups.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
My feelings exactly. Left-wingers got us into this mess in the first place by demanding that banks give out subprime loans to people who would never pay them back and Clinton promised these banks that the US Government would bail them out i
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by jstedfast 15y ago
> Isn't that exactly what they're doing? No. They are blaming everyone else for their problems and expecting everyone else to pick up their slack. That's not taking personal responsibility. What they need to do is learn to spend respons
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by jstedfast 15y ago
Who's giving them any ill will? Where is this Red Hat hate? I used to work for Novell/SUSE and even we didn't hate Red Hat. So I can't imagine who, in the Linux community, is hating Red Hat.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
According to the article, both AMD and Intel are on board with the UEFI.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
Okay, that may be but it has no impact on the "freeness" of Android 3.x.
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by jstedfast 15y ago
Is software freedom defined differently on phones vs tablets? Why does Android 3.x not being for phones make any difference at all to this conversation?
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by jstedfast 15y ago
I think one of the biggest issues people are facing with MonoDevelop is stability (we get a lot of feedback from users that they get a lot of crashes). There's definitely a lot of work/polish that needs to go into MonoDevelop and it's somet
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by jstedfast 15y ago
While I generally find myself on the side opposing patents, this article was an interesting read from the pro-patent perspective and I feel made good arguments. I personally like to know and understand both sides because, in my experience,
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Mono: A cure for Microsoft monotheism(zdnet.co.uk)
28 points by jstedfast 15y ago|30 comments
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by jstedfast 15y ago
That is obviously not the case as Microsoft immediately sold back the Novell patents to Attachmate and so cannot participate in any offensive action.
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Instant Company(nat.org)
255 points by jstedfast 15y ago|34 comments
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Nat Friedman joins Xamarin as CEO(nat.org)
2 points by jstedfast 15y ago|0 comments
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by jstedfast 15y ago
thanks! We appreciate all the love!
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Mono Developers start their own company(tirania.org)
325 points by jstedfast 15y ago|80 comments
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Why Red Hat Is Wrong That It's Better To Just Pay Patent Trolls Sometimes(techdirt.com)
5 points by jstedfast 15y ago|0 comments
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Chaining Compute Shaders(altdevblogaday.org)
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Ready, Set, Allocate (Part 2) by Paul Laska(altdevblogaday.org)
2 points by jstedfast 15y ago|0 comments

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