On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:01:14AM -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote: > > Hello: > At the moment Fedora seems to want absolutely nothing to do with Mono. Why > not try to go a little farther and include mono interfaces to dbus, hal, > gnome, etc. This means that if someone does install Mono then all the > system libraries are ready to do some C# programming. And if a user doesn't > install Mono, then the interfaces will lie there useless. Aside from the legal issues (which others have addressed in this thread), because they then "will lie there useless." I don't want something on my computer unless I'm going to use it. I resent that, e.g, I have to have CD burning software on any computer on which I run Gnome, whether the box has a burner on it or not. Aside from the aesthetic of wasting hard drive space, there's also the practical fact that if it isn't there, the bad guys can't crack it. This is essential for, e.g. firewalls. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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