Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim

Debian, the foundation of Ubuntu, has rejected claims that it's potentially holding Linux's future hostage to Microsoft by including an open-source implementation of .NET in its code. A project spokesman has said GPL daddy Richard Stallman was wrong to say Mono will be featured in Debian's default installation, adding Mono would be used by just a mall number of users. Installations affected will be those that implement the Gnome desktop using a meta package with a dependency on Tomboy. These installations will need to pull in Mono, the long-running open-source implementation of .NET now sponsored by Novell. Tomboy is a note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X available under the LGPL. Debian developer and spokesman Alexander Reichle-Schmehl has... [read full story]                    

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