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ALL IS NOT WELL in Debian land as the venerable free software project has decided to accept Mono-based applications despite a warning issued by bearded GNU guru Richard Stallman. Debian is just getting ready for the second update of its Linux version 5.0 which goes by the name of Lenny. What spurred Stallman to speak up is the Mono-based note-taking application Tomboy. He thinks that by sticking the Tomboy package in its distribution, Debian runs a risk of getting sued by the Vole over its C# and .NET patents. Mono is the open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET, which is written in its C# language. Mono was bought by Novell in 2003 and supports Linux, Solaris, other Unixes including the BSDs and Mac OS X. It has been used to develop a few Linux desktop programs such as the Evolution email client and Tomboy. Stallman's... [read full story]
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