---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anivar Aravind anivar@movingrepublic.org Date: 2008/8/5 Subject: [ssug-malappuram] Another reason to boycott Novell & Mono. To: ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com, "Palakkad Libre software Users Society (+PLUS)" plus-discuss@lists.sarovar.org, ssug-malappuram@freelists.org

See the derstarndard.at interview with Miguel de Icaza, It clearly shows how m$ wants to make a proprietary web using silver lite. Microsoft i using Mono & Moonlite project of Novell as a back door to enter to the world of GNU/Linux. People like Migual who is leading GNOME foundation become their brand ambassadors (who pushes implementation of OOXML in GNOME, Pushing Mono as an Integral part of GNOME & now developing moonlite too)

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216918402134

For me this interview is a solid reason to switch to KDE4 which is protected with GPLv3

Anivar -- "Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now. Dismantling them is up to us. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm Wiki: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Malappuram