[News] A Look at GTK+ 3.0, Novell Unleashes Poison Factory

GTK+ 3.0: Getting serious.

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| GTK+ has come a long way. From its humble beginnings as "The GIMP ToolKit",
| it is now used in a plethora of applications. In fact, GTK+ is very popular.
| GNOME, one of the leading desktop environment on Unix systems, uses GTK+
| almost exclusively. The Gimp is built upon GTK+, of course. And there are
| many commercial software developers like Adobe, NVidia and VMware that
| decided to use it as a base for their products.
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http://federkiel.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/gtk-30-getting-serious/

And Novell unleashes the Microsoft poison...

MonoDevelop Development Environment Available

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| Novell today announced the availability of MonoDevelop 1.0, an open source
| development tool for Mono(R) that supports Microsoft* Visual Studio* project
| formats along with C# and other programming languages. MonoDevelop enables
| developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux*
| and Mac OS X*. MonoDevelop will make it easier for developers to port .NET
| applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and Mac OS X and to maintain
| a single code base for all three platforms.
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http://www.examiner.com/p-129893~MonoDevelop_Development_Environment_A...lable.h

It's for Microsoft (and Novell, which now openly calls Microsoft "a partner"),
not for GNU/Linux.


Recent:

Scoble: "I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to
stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue."

http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/764673949


MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal

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| Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for
| the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing
| agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent
| protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project,
| which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.    
|
| Speaking on a panel at the MIX 08 conference in Las Vegas, de Icaza said that
| Novell has done the best it could to balance open-source interests with
| patent indemnification. However, if he had his way, the company would have
| remained strictly open source and not gotten into bed with Microsoft. Novell
| entered into a controversial multimillion dollar cross-patent licensing and
| interoperability deal with Microsoft in November 2006.    
|
| "I'm not happy about the fact that such an agreement was made, but [the
| decision] was above my pay grade; I think we should have stayed with the
| open-source community," de Icaza said. He was speaking on a panel that also
| included representatives from Microsoft and open-source companies Mozilla and
| Zend.    
|
| [...]
|
| De Icaza shot back that it was "unfair" of Schroepfer to paint Novell as the
| only company protected by patent covenants, as many companies have signed
| licensing agreements not only with Microsoft, but also with other companies
| such as IBM that have a large patent portfolio.  
|
| [...]
|
| The choice has drawn ire from open-source diehards who were displeased with
| Novell's decision to sign a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft in the
| first place. A Web site called "Boycott Novell" decried Moonlight as a
| Microsoft "pet project" and criticized the company's decision not to port
| Silverlight to Linux itself.    
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/06/mix-novells-de-icaza-critic...s-micro


Simple mental exercise: Identify the OS!

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mono\gac\System.ServiceProcess\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.ServiceProcess.dll
mono\gac\System.Transactions\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Transactions.dll
mono\gac\System.Web.Services\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Web.Services.dll
mono\gac\System.Web\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Web.dll
mono\gac\System.Xml\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Xml.dll
mono\gac\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll
|
|
| Hint: Replace the backslashes with slashes, then prefix each path
| with /usr/lib/.
|
| The correct answer is: no, it's not Microsoft Windows, it's Debian
| GNU/Linux "Lenny" (testing), with the minimum dependencies needed to run
| F-Spot! (Actually, I guess that all not the files are needed, but this is how
| they package them, and how the dependencies are set.)  
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/20/10/22/59-simple-me...l-exerc


Related:

OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss

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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.    
|
| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.  
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/


Miguel, Mono and Microsoft

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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
|
| [...]
|
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110...Itemid=

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:49:33 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> GTK+ 3.0: Getting serious.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | GTK+ has come a long way. From its humble beginnings as "The GIMP
> ToolKit", | it is now used in a plethora of applications. In fact, GTK+
> is very popular. | GNOME, one of the leading desktop environment on Unix
> systems, uses GTK+ | almost exclusively. The Gimp is built upon GTK+, of
> course. And there are | many commercial software developers like Adobe,
> NVidia and VMware that | decided to use it as a base for their products.
> `----
>
> http://federkiel.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/gtk-30-getting-serious/

Yeah, it is a shame KDE isn't built on gtk+. I prefer KDE to Gnome, but
generally use gtk apps.


--
Rick