[News] Novell and Microsoft Are Poisoning OpenOffice.org
Roy Schestowitz
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Test drive OpenOffice 3 RC 1
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| The final release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected later this month, in time
| for the upcoming Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora and OpenSuse releases later this
| year.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3031
But:
Defeated (the common sense, by Mandriva)
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| # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 2>&1 |
| grep mono
| libmono.so.0 is needed by
| openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
| mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
| openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
| mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
| openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-common-sense-by-man
Here is Microsoft saying that it's patent poison:
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/19/mono-officially-a-minefield-is-ooo-too/
Related:
Embracing the .Beast
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| Mono allows programmers to program in Visual Basic on Linux and run their
| applications on Windows, or develop in C# on Windows and run their
| applications on Linux, but remains a controversial addition to the Linux
| developers' arsenal.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/features/160776/embracing-the-beast.html
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=11081&Itemid=1091
Red Hat Doesn't Want Mono
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| There are a lot of great new programs and innovations expected
| in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Novell-led Mono project isn't
| one of them.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3644981
Who would use Mono now?
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| With Java available as default in every Linux distribution (made
| possible by the move to GPL) I think Java has a great future on
| Linux. Better integration into the Gnome and KDE desktops would be
| nice, but I guess that is just a matter of time now that it's
| Open Source.
|
| [...]
|
| You can call it FUD, but for me it's a question of investing my time
| and energy in technology that are and will be available on the
| platforms I use (Mac OS X and Linux). I don't trust Microsoft and I
| don't trust Novell anymore either. Who knows when Microsot will bring
| out it's patents and kill Mono use outside of Novell? I think .NET is
| good if you want to develop for Windows only. For cross platform
| development I would not use it - I would go for Java.
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http://labora.harnvi.net/?p=37
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Homer
> Defeated (the common sense, by Mandriva)
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 2>&1 |
> | grep mono
> | libmono.so.0 is needed by
> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
> | mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
> | mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
> `----
>
> http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-common-sense-by-man
Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
Time to switch to KOffice.
I already intend switching my whole network over to KDE anyway, once
Fedora 10 is released.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| By bucking Microsoft for open source, says Gunderloy, "I'm no
| longer contributing to the eventual death of programming."
| ~ http://www.linux.com/feature/142083
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Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8
09:10:22 up 29 days, 6:23, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 0.27, 0.29
Moshe Goldfarb
> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
Hahahha!
Welcome to the real world.
> Time to switch to KOffice.
You'll be sorry..............
> I already intend switching my whole network over to KDE anyway, once
> Fedora 10 is released.
Poor baby....
Would you like some cheese with that *whine* ?
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
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Roy Schestowitz
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____/ Homer on Sunday 14 September 2008 08:11 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Defeated (the common sense, by Mandriva)
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
>> | # 2>&1 |
>> | grep mono
>> | libmono.so.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> | mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> | mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> `----
>>
>>
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-common-sense-by-man
>
> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
>
> Time to switch to KOffice.
>
> I already intend switching my whole network over to KDE anyway, once
> Fedora 10 is released.
It was being disputed in Groklaw last month:
Let's wait and see how they resolve this.
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Hadron
> Homer wrote:
>
>
>> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
>
> Hahahha!
>
> Welcome to the real world.
>
>
>> Time to switch to KOffice.
>
> You'll be sorry..............
>
>> I already intend switching my whole network over to KDE anyway, once
>> Fedora 10 is released.
Wow. What an idiot. KDE's instability is legendary. As for
KOffice. LOL. Dead in the water.
So now OO is evil too.
>
> Poor baby....
> Would you like some cheese with that *whine* ?
Homer is insane.
--
"I would assume her children might like to know where their mother is and
have a place to *visit* her."
-- "tiny dancer" <tinyda...@nospamhotmail.com> in alt.true-crime, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Clogwog
news:gaiho2$hqh$1...@registered.motzarella.org...
> Homer wrote:
>
>
>> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
>
> Hahahha!
>
> Welcome to the real world.
>
>
>> Time to switch to KOffice.
>
> You'll be sorry..............
>
>> I already intend switching my whole network over to KDE anyway, once
>> Fedora 10 is released.
>
> Poor baby....
Wow! Is this Homer?
http://www.net-games.biz/funny-pictures/pictures/969.jpg
Tim Smith
Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 2>&1
> | |
> | grep mono
> | libmono.so.0 is needed by
> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
> | mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
> | mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
> `----
>
> http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-comm
> on-sense-by-man
If you read the author's remarks in the comments there, they are
interesting. He would have a similar objection if OO required Perl, or
Python, or pretty much anything else (including QT or GTK+). He seems
to think it should be a pure C or C++ program, using no libraries other
than the lowest level system libraries and the lowest level X libraries.
...
> Here is Microsoft saying that it's patent poison:
> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/19/mono-officially-a-minefield-is-ooo-too/
Really? When did Microsoft acquire boycottnovell.com and use that to
make official statements?
Wait, they didn't. That link is to you making your usual made-up claims
about Mono.
--
--Tim Smith
Tim Smith
wrote:
>
> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
>
> Time to switch to KOffice.
KOffice has poor ODF support, so what document format will you use?
--
--Tim Smith
Linonut
http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=KOffice_and_ODF
They're working on it.
--
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense
-- Picasso
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> In article <1837585.e...@schestowitz.com>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
>> | # 2>&1
>> | |
>> | grep mono
>> | libmono.so.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> | mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> | mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> `----
>>
>> http://beranger.org
index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-comm
>> on-sense-by-man
>
> If you read the author's remarks in the comments there, they are
> interesting. He would have a similar objection if OO required Perl, or
> Python, or pretty much anything else (including QT or GTK+). He seems
> to think it should be a pure C or C++ program, using no libraries other
> than the lowest level system libraries and the lowest level X libraries.
Thats not a bad idea and probably 100% on the mark.
Some of these kinds of software have to run on many other machines
(such as embedded, MIPS machines etc) and not all of these have the kinds of
memory resources and RAM for uneccessary bloat. It also slows down the
product. All these other functions that need to be put in should be done
as plugins so that appropriate libs can be loaded IF REQUIRED.
Linonut
> In article <1837585.e...@schestowitz.com>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm 2>&1
>> | |
>> | grep mono
>> | libmono.so.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> | mono(mscorlib) = 1.0.5000.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> | mono(mscorlib) = 2.0.0.0 is needed by
>> | openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586
>> `----
>>
>> http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/12/06/09/30-defeated-the-common-sense-by-man
>
> If you read the author's remarks in the comments there, they are
> interesting. He would have a similar objection if OO required Perl, or
> Python, or pretty much anything else (including QT or GTK+). He seems
> to think it should be a pure C or C++ program, using no libraries other
> than the lowest level system libraries and the lowest level X libraries.
In any case, if you apply ldd to every component in Debian's install of
openoffice, in /usr/lib/openoffice/program, there aren't any
dependencies on a mono library.
While no where near conclusive (there are openoffice gnome and evolution
debs in my /var/cache/apt/archives that need to be examined), it looks
more like a packaging mistake.
Anyway, Tim, you may be mischaracterizing his opinion:
So, in order to use a future OpenOffice.org 5.0, we should prepare to
be REQUIRED to have installed on our distro of choice: Qt3, Qt4, Qt5,
GTK+ 2.x, GTK+ 3.0, Mono, Perl, Awk, Python, LISP, CAML, Pike, Lua,
FOX Toolkit, ncurses, and 5,764 libraries and system utilities. Just
to be able to use an office suite. Because, you know, this is
progress, so why should this be a problem?
--
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Moshe Goldfarb
Knowing these Linux COLA idiots, plain text......
Moshe Goldfarb
>
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/19/mono-officially-a-minefield-is-ooo-too/
>
> Really? When did Microsoft acquire boycottnovell.com and use that
> to make official statements?
>
> Wait, they didn't. That link is to you making your usual made-up
> claims about Mono.
If Schestowitz keeps up the libel and slander, Microsoft just might
acquire BN, but not in the way Roy Schestowitz is planning on......
Roy Schestowitz
> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In article <1837585.e...@schestowitz.com>,
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | # rpm -i --force openoffice.org-common-3.0svn13475-1mdv2009.0.i586.rpm
>>> | # 2>&1
It's a packaging mistake and Mandriva is now aware of this.
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/13/microsoft-admitted-mono-trap/
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Moshe Goldfarb
> It's a packaging mistake and Mandriva is now aware of this.
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/13/microsoft-admitted-mono-trap/
Yea....
They probably forgot to try and charge the user for it......
Mandriva sucks...
Homer
> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> In article <rhtup5-...@sky.matrix>, Homer <use...@slated.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
>>>
>>> Time to switch to KOffice.
>>
>> KOffice has poor ODF support, so what document format will you use?
>
> http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=KOffice_and_ODF
>
> They're working on it.
If it comes down to a choice between KOffice's native format, or
poisoning my systems with Mono for the sake of ODF compatibility,
then I'm afraid OOo is getting flushed down the pan.
--
K.
http://slated.org
.----
| By bucking Microsoft for open source, says Gunderloy, "I'm no
| longer contributing to the eventual death of programming."
| ~ http://www.linux.com/feature/142083
`----
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8
00:59:52 up 30 days, 22:12, 5 users, load average: 1.24, 1.16, 1.20
Moshe
> If it comes down to a choice between KOffice's native format, or
> poisoning my systems with Mono for the sake of ODF compatibility,
> then I'm afraid OOo is getting flushed down the pan.
Don't you think that is a little extreme?
Roy Schestowitz
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____/ Homer on Tuesday 16 September 2008 00:00 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>> In article <rhtup5-...@sky.matrix>, Homer <use...@slated.org>
>>> wrote:
>
>>>> Oh crap. Don't tell me OOo is being poisoned by Mono too now.
>>>>
>>>> Time to switch to KOffice.
>>>
>>> KOffice has poor ODF support, so what document format will you use?
>>
>> http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=KOffice_and_ODF
>>
>> They're working on it.
>
> If it comes down to a choice between KOffice's native format, or
> poisoning my systems with Mono for the sake of ODF compatibility,
> then I'm afraid OOo is getting flushed down the pan.
I think the blame lies with go-oo, which is Novell's filthy branch (arguably
fork) of Sun's work. You can download the vanilla OOo from Sun and install
that instead. Some people say it's better and more reliable (I have links for
that).
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Roy Schestowitz
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____/ Moshe on Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:25 : \____
*PLONK*
Stop nymshifting, Gary Stewart. That won't last for you.
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