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1. Patrick McFarland Java

   I think !java will appreciate http://bit.ly/VBQb3

   Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 07:08:58 UTC from web
   • Hassan Ibraheem

     @diablod3 the first sentence totally missed the point actually. #RMS didn't say depending on #Mono is bad because of #dotGNU.

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 07:26:43 UTC
   • Patrick McFarland Hassan Ibraheem

     @hassanibraheem #RMS may have not said anything at all then, and this is just a badly worded PR statement promoting #dotGNU because its GNU

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 08:16:15 UTC
   • Hassan Ibraheem

     @diablod3 No, the point of mentioning dotGNU was to show that GNU believes the existence of a libre C# implementation is important...

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 08:26:56 UTC
   • Patrick McFarland Hassan Ibraheem

     @hassanibraheem Except Mono is 99% GPL, LGPL, and MIT licensed, thus already FOSS; this does not fix .NET's BCL is API hell.

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 08:30:46 UTC
   • Hassan Ibraheem

     @diablod3 I was not talking about the BCL argument. It's just that RMS didn't say "don't depend on Mono, dotGNU is better".

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 09:09:07 UTC
   • Patrick McFarland Hassan Ibraheem

     @hassanibraheem What I'm saying is, if RMS thinks there should be a GNU (not just FLOSS) impl of C#/.NET, then he thinks its worth using.

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 09:14:55 UTC
   • Hassan Ibraheem

     @diablod3 I think it's like #Wine. It's good to have, but it's not good to depend on and target for main development.

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 09:24:56 UTC
   • Patrick McFarland Hassan Ibraheem

     @hassanibraheem But otoh if people used Java, programs would need (virtually) no porting as it already runs everywhere; plus we have GNU GCJ

     Tuesday, 30-Jun-09 09:42:24 UTC