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The GNOME Journal, September Edition

Submitted by claus on Fri, 2005-09-16 06:04. GNOME

The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. It
features a look at GNOME's Summer of Code participation by Julien Gilli
and Akbar Pasha, Peer to Peer document collaboration with GOCollab by
Claus Schwarm and Martin Sevior, an introduction to the Banshee Music
Player by Ken VanDine, the description of a GNOME deployment in Austria
by Murray Cumming, Remote Desktop Administration using Vino by Marcus
Bauer, and notes on translating GNOME by Runa Bhattacharjee.

The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by
the GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Well, he does have a point

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-09-18 18:14.

Well, he does have a point about the integration issues. Mono has gtk#. Java has...swing? That is about as good as Firefox's Gnome integration. I generally agree with the legal issues surrounding Mono. I don't trust Microsoft to not try to sue a Mono-using project into non-existence. I don't really trust Sun either, but at least they can't take away what is already out there. There are some nice technical things about Mono that make it appealing, but you can't ignore legal issues. Everybody whines about RMS and ESR, but, for all of their evangelism, they do say important things. Software Freedom is important for the open source community. Without it, linux would not be where it is today. Do you remember what happened with Bitkeeper? I know that happened a whole 3 months ago, but (to the shock of Linus and a few other kernel developers) Bitmover decided to *gasp* take their software away after they had "generously" let the kernel developers use it for a couple of years. This kind of stuff *does* happen. You need to make sure you legally dot your i's and cross your t's if you don't want the rug pulled out from under you.

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