GNOME vs Canonical

[James]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> Let's get back in history and look why Gnome was even started. In fact some
> people (among them Miguel de Iqaza and IIRC Jono Bacon) were not happy with
> the Qt licensing at the time. Today, the IP issue is actually reverse due
> to the
> heavy reliance on Mono by Gnome and the related patent issues.
>
> I'm not aware of any Gnome parts that rely on mono(in the core). Tomboy is
a project made by Gnome that uses GTK & Mono(Yes I hate it too), but there
are alternatives(Gnote (which is made as a Tomboy C++ port)). F-Spot is an
application that uses GTK and mono and even there there are alternatives:
Shotwell for one.


> Just my 2 cents (Canadian!)
>
> Atleast it's worth more then the USD :D
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