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This page contains links to the many posts that we have about Mono. We also have separate pages about Xamarin, Mono Applications, Miguel de Icaza, and Moonlight.

Xamarin

Mono Applications

Miguel de Icaza

Moonlight

●● 2021

Team Mono is on the Run

Microsoft's Team Mono: One Happy Family

Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VIII — Mr. Graveley’s Long Career Serving Microsoft’s Agenda (Before Hiring by Microsoft to Work on GitHub’s GPL Violations Machine)

●● 2020

It's 2020 and Some GNU/Linux Sites Still Celebrate Mono, Even When Microsoft Owns and Controls It Directly

●● 2016

Xamarin Quits Pretending to be Separate From Microsoft, All Staff to Work Directly for Microsoft

●● 2015

The Threat of Mono is Not Entirely Over Yet

●● 2014

Microsoft-backed Mono is Still Trying to Spread to More Linux-Based Platforms

●● 2013

Latest Debian GNU/Linux Installs Gnote When Mono is Removed

Mono Can Now be Treated Like a Microsoft Project

Canonical Neglects Tomboy (Mono)

Mono Dries Up

●● August 2012

Patent Traps in Linux; Mono Increasingly Developed by Microsoft

Mono and Xamarin After Cash Infusion From Former Microsoft Executives

●● July 2012

Microsoft ‘Community’ Takes Control of Mono, Passes Belated Bribes to Mono Developers

Pinta Considered Dead, Mono Goes to Microsoft

●● November 2011

Canonical/Ubuntu Considers Dumping Mono From Ubuntu LTS

Mono Bug Persists in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

●● September 2011

Monocalypse

OpenSUSE Drops Java But Not Mono

Mono for Android is Proprietary, Even Tomdroid Dodges It

●● August 2011

SUSE and Xamarin: Helping Microsoft Tax GNU/Linux (Google Should Secede From the Funding)

.NET Gets Called a Mistake, But Not in Xamarin

●● July 2011

Microsoft Development Surveys and Microsoft Mono

Xamarin Gets Permission From Novell But Not From Microsoft

Xamarin and Mono a Dead End

Xamarin Has a Trademarks Problem

Emulating Microsoft is Good for Microsoft

Don’t Support Mono

●● June 2011

Xamarin/Mono Already Abandoned by Developers

MonoDroid and MonoTouch Are Assimilation to .NET

Techrights Was Right About Mono Being Open Core, Now Miguel de Icaza Admits It

Foggy and Binary Future (If Any) for Mono

Microsoft Partner Attachmate Keeps Monopoly Over Mono ‘IP’ After Microsoft Aided Sale

Microsoft Proponents Promote Xamarin While Microsoft is Abandoning .NET/Mono

●● May 2011

As Mono Runs Out of Money Developers Avoid It

Xamarin CEO Has Microsoft Employment History

DistroWatch: Fedora Keeps Mono in Rawhide

Funding Behind Xamarin is Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza; Fresh Concerns About Attachmate

SD Times: “Attachmate (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) buys Novell. Microsoft gives gobs of money to Attachmate. Attachmate whacks the Mono team.”

Xamarin Analysed

Mono Company Registered Near Microsoft (Bellevue)

Jack Schofield Accused of “Lack of Professionalism” for Daemonising Mono Sceptics

The Threat of Mono on Android and on Ubuntu is Not Totally Gone Yet

Microsoft Infiltrator Wants Canonical to Foster Mono as Canonical CTO (Who Opposed Mono) Leaves

Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono

Mono Development Canned (Updated: Everyone Laid Off)

What Google Should Do Now That Android is Being Poisoned by Novell (With Mono) and Sued by Microsoft

●● April 2011

Attachmate and Mono

Mono is Microsoft

Ubuntu Without the Mono

Debian 6 Claimed to be Harmed by Mono, Ubuntu Suffers From Banshee Problems

.NET and More Microsoft APIs Pushed Into GNU/Linux by Microsoft MVPs and FUD Spreaders (Against Linux)

●● March 2011

Why Microsoft’s Guy Miguel de Icaza Pushes for C# at Apple, Which is Not Successful

Novell Rips Red Hat Off and Rips the Community Apart, Brings Microsoft and Patent Tax Into it

Miguel de Icaza is at Microsoft, Attacking Ubuntu GNU/Linux

●● February 2011

Promoting OpenSUSE is Not the Same as Promoting Mono

One Last Sellout From Novell (MPEG-LA, Microsoft Patent Traps)

Simon Phipps: “Mentioning Mono in my article was an interesting experience. It was like mentioning Scientology…”

Microsoft Bans Mono

Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia

Miguel de Icaza Helps Show He is an Enemy of GNU/Linux

With Novell’s Intervention, MeeGo Now Poisoned by Mono

Poisoning Mobile Linux With Microsoft Staff and Mono

Banshee’s Developer Quits Novell

●● January 2011

From UNIX Battles to .NET Battles

Keeping Unity Mono Free

The “Mono Lobby” Explained by Neil Richards

Adrian Malacoda on Apathy Towards Mono

Richard Stallman: “The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents”

Monofree Helps Remove and Block Mono, Just Like Mononono

Mono in ‘Damage Control’

Linux Mint Founder Does Not Follow Ubuntu’s Banshee Travesty

OMG!Ubuntu! Likes Mono

Mono Boosters in Ubuntu Have Conflicts of Interest, LibreOffice Under Similar Threat

Change Happens (Consensus Regarding Mono)

●● December 2010

Wayne Borean: Mono Should Come With “Danger – Microsoft Inside” Label

.NET is Microsoft’s Patent Poison Pill Inside Any GNU/Linux Distribution With Mono

Mono Lie of the Week: AttachMSFT’s Banshee is Safe

Mono Under AttachMSFT Spreads Microsoft Languages, Opposition Bullied

Canonical is Hiring Mono Developers, Losing COO

●● November 2010

Bad Decision Made at Canonical Regarding Media Player

Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Does Not Know What Will Happen to Mono

Mono is for Microsoft and Microsoft F# Loves Miguel de Icaza

Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead

●● October 2010

Canonical Probably to Put in Next Ubuntu GNU/Linux Mono Parts Which Microsoft Disallows Free of Lawsuits/Charge

The Source on Rejecting Mono, Which Earns a Room at FOSDEM 2011

Allegation: Novell Has “Profit Motive for Pushing Mono Everywhere”

GNOME and Mono Meet Through Zeitgeist

How Mono Helps Microsoft DirectX, With Contribution From VMB_ware

“OMGUbuntu Makes a Dig at Mono?”

To Mono Leadership/Development Team, “A Mono Success Story of Biblical Proportions” Means No GNU/Linux Support

Mono as a Whole Appears to be a Patent Trap

Mono is Not a GNU/Linux Project and It Keeps Feeding Those Who Bite the GNU/Linux Hand

OpenSUSE’s Former and Existing Community Managers Promote Mono Patent Trap

Smeegol Linux Has a Mono Problem

Joint Microsoft/Novell Release of Mono, Partly With Microsoft Licences, Patents, and Even Copyrights

Mobbyists Love Mono

The Redmond-Associated Press is Promoting Mono

●● September 2010

Mono Liars - Quick clarifications regarding a smear campaign that’s waged against Techrights by Mono proponents

Mono Liars

Nokia, Zeitgeist, MeeGo/Maemo, and Moonlight/Mono Threat

Next Mono is Coming With Microsoft Code, Microsoft Licences

Mono Outperformed by .NET Sometimes, Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Dumps Novell’s Banshee

Don’t Touch NoTouch (MonoTouch)

Don’t Touch NoTouch

Embedding ‘Microsoft Tax’ in Linux, Using Mono

“Q: Why is it written in Mono/C#? A: Because I hate freedom.”

●● August 2010

Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted)

Mono Accessibility for Microsoft

OMG!Mono! (Mono boosting comes from OMG!Ubuntu! (as usual), but the original source of Mono development is drying up)

OMG!Mono!

Mono in GNOME Zeitgeist

Microsoft’s ‘Android Tax’ Shows Why Mono Should be Treated as Threat

Novell/Mono Could be Sued by Oracle; Taleo Puts Sun’s Former CEO and Former Novell Employee in the Board

Novell Connects Mono and Fog Computing (Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ Included)

Novell Spreads .NET, Receives Backing From Microsoft Boosters

Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat

Patent Threat Banshee Gets Hooks Into Ubuntu 10.10

Novell/Microsoft Mono Poison (Banshee) Put in Ubuntu 10.10 NBE by Default

Making Money for Increasing Microsoft Threat to GNU/Linux

Novell’s Promotion of Mono and Visual Studio Tools Comes Under Scrutiny

●● July 2010

How Novell’s Mono Mob Operates

Richard Stallman Reiterates Threat of Mono, Wikipedia Censored by Mono Boosters

Mono Demoted to “Proprietary Software” Status

Microsoft Co-Develops Mono With Novell

●● June 2010

Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)

SUSE MeeGo is About Mono and OpenSUSE Makes Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux

Microsoft Certified Partner Supports Mono

Mono Cleanup (Ubuntu GNU/Linux follows the footsteps of projects like Fedora and sweeps Novell’s Mono aside)

Mono Cleanup

Novell Turns MeeGo Into Another Ballnux

Novell is Knowingly Seeding GNU/Linux, MeeGo and Android With Microsoft Patents

●● May 2010

MeeGo is Hijacked by the Mono Team

Novell: The Copy of a Copy

By Pushing Mono Into Android, Novell Puts Microsoft Before Freedom

The Microsoft/Novell Mono Lobby

Attempts to Push Mono Into Awn

Microsoft/Novell Faking “Open Source” and Pushing .NET Into Web Browsers

●● April 2010

Keeping Mono Out of Ubuntu 10.04 and Android; HTC Sued Again for Software Patents

Adobe Trash Player and Novell/Microsoft Mono

Docky is Mono

Why Mono is Technically Inferior for Development and Why Microsoft Keeps Promoting It

Apple’s Latest Mischiefs, Ignores Mono’s Pleas

Canonical is Already Aware of the Problem With Mono

Ubuntu Removes gThumb and Adds More Mono

The Future of Mono and MonoTouch is Uncertain

The GIMP is Fine, But Novell Staff Wants It Replaced by .NET

Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too

Red Hat Converts C# Code to Java While Apple Outright Rejects C#

SchoolOS to Remove Mono, Apple ‘Blocks’ MonoTouch

Novell Dominates Almost a Third of GNOME Foundation Board, Including the Director

Mono Team Develops More Windows Software and Mocks Critics

Ubuntu Removes Codec Patent Trap, But What About Mono?

●● March 2010

The ‘Conspiracy’ of Mono

If You Distrust Mono, Then You Are Called a “Microsoft Hater”, “Paranoid”, and “Conspiracy Theorist”

SD Times Removes Miguel de Icaza’s Admission That Mono Has Patent Problems and de Icaza Mocks Jeremy Allison

Mono, the Monopolist’s Sidekick (Microsoft’s companions help the company either influence other companies or take over their agenda, Mono being the tool by which .NET gets injected into rivals)

Mono, the Monopolist’s Sidekick

Señor de Icaza Meets Other Microsoft MVPs

Microsoft MVP de Icaza: Microsoft “Shot the .NET Ecosystem in the Foot” Because of Patent Threats

Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)

Mono and Novell Influence Increases in the GNOME Foundation

Ubuntu One Adds Mono Bindings

Moonlight Disappoints

Despite (or Because of) Microsoft's Patent Extortion, Novell Continues to Focus on Mono

Ubuntu 10.04 Increases Mono Dependency

●● February 2010

Despite Failure (Rejection by Users and Developers), Novell Carries on Spreading Mono and Moonlight

Novell is Already Poisoning MeeGo With Microsoft Trojan Horses

Novell’s Mac-only Mono and Some Notes About Ubuntu

The “Microsoft Everywhere” Vision of Novell

What Apple Teaches Us About Mono and Moonlight

The Latest from Microsoft’s Ambassador to Linux (MVP Miguel de Icaza) and Other FSF-Hostile Folks

Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By

Novell/Microsoft and the Funding of Pinta’s (Mono) Developer

Mark Shuttleworth: “If Windows API Becomes the Default on Linux Then What is the Point of Linux?”

More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell (another Mono program from Novell)

More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell

The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell! ("A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans")

The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell!

Sleeping with Mono - Assorted items about Mono and Moonlight

Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Google and What It Teaches Us About Mono

●● January 2010

Novell and Freedom Are Incompatible ("Novell’s obsession with Microsoft (and even Apple) is highlighted using the latest evidence")

Novell and Freedom Are Incompatible

On Novell, Ubuntu, Microsoft and Mono

Novell Promotes Apple, .NET

What the Yahoo! Deal Means for Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Mono)

Novell Spreads Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux Whereas LINA Spreads GNU/Linux Inside Windows

Humanity to Others’ Agenda (Analysis of some of Canonical’s recent moves, which give rise to Novell’s Mono and proprietary software)

Humanity to Others’ Agenda

Indian Activists Fight Back Against Microsoft Patents as Jeremy Allison Repeats Warning, Cites Mono as Patent Trap

New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”

Bug #1 is Not “Market Share”

With Mono Clearly on Microsoft’s Side, Another Call for Ubuntu to Move Mono to ‘Restricted’

When Mono Gets Treated Similarly to Skype (Proprietary)

“Mixed Source” and “Half Pregnant” (Mono as Open Core)

“Mixed Source” and “Half Pregnant”

Microsoft Betrays Another ‘Partner’, This Time MySQL (mention of Sqlite#)

Microsoft Betrays Another ‘Partner’, This Time MySQL

Miguel de Icaza Groomed by Microsoft with MVP Award

Locked Out of Mono Blogs, by Silverlight

Novell Repeats Mistakes of WordPerfect, This Time with Mono

Novell’s Christmas Presents for Microsoft

Microsoft on GNU/Linux Clones of Microsoft: “We’d Have to Look to the Protection Offered Under Intellectual Property (sic) Law”

●● December 2009

DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing” (and discussion about lessons for Mono/Novell)

DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing”

gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited

Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux

Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop)

Microsoft’s Moonlight “Promise” Full of Holes

The Lies About Moonlight Carry on, MSBBC to Block Free Software Users Again

“The Moonlight/Mono World Does Not Work That Way Though.”

Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux

Taking Mono Off the Menu

Accurate Coverage of Novell ("Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell")

Accurate Coverage of Novell

Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways

Microsoft Gave Moonlight “Blessings” in 2007

Avoid Mono to Put Back the *NIX in GNU/Linux

Gnote is Alive, New Release Available ("If Ubuntu is looking to save disk space, which it does, then it should remove Mono (and Tomboy), not the GIMP.")

Gnote is Alive, New Release Available

Mono Bullies ("Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely")

Mono Bullies

Less OpenSUSE, More Microsoft Software at Novell

●● November 2009

F-Spot (Mono) Can Still be Removed from Next Ubuntu

The Case for a Mono-Free Ubuntu and Novell’s Case for a Mono Fee Ubuntu

Salivating Over Silverlight ("If Novell’s vice president is “droolingly” Microsoft’s, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?")

Salivating Over Silverlight

With gThumb and Gnote in Ubuntu 10.04, Default Install Would be Leaner, Mono Free

Telepathy a Plugin Away from Mono (Non-ECMA Parts)

Mono: Deaf to the Facts

Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET

Moonlight and Mono Not GNU/Linux Projects Anymore

Microsoft Exposes .NET Patent Trap to More Potential Copyright Issues

OpenSUSE 11.2 is Open to Microsoft Lawsuits Because of Mono

Is the Mono Project Run Partly by Microsoft Now?

Can GNOME 3.0 Avoid Mono Despite GNOME Foundation Director Being Novell Employee?

At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”? ("Novell’s latest moves clearly show a technical convergence with Microsoft, so why treat these companies separately?")

At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”?

Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs

Novell and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Boost Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Linux Patent Tax

Mono and GNOME 3.0

Gnote Would Fit Nicely in Ubuntu 10.04 (Default Install)

●● October 2009

The Price of Mono

Mono and Fraud

Massive New Migration to Free Software in French Authorities; Gendarmerie Should Delete Mono

Novell Uses IDG to Promote Mono

Banshee is Novell, Mono, and ‘Forbidden’ Microsoft Software Patents

Mono Programs Removed from gNewSense

Mono, Open Core, and Other Bizarre Forms of Open Source

FSFE Adds Weight to Call for Mono Resistance

“Mono Mania” Carries on and Evolution Includes Mono

Simon Phipps on “Monomaniacs”, More Reactions to Jeremy Allison’s Mono Prognosis

Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software

Mono’s #1 Problem is Not Software Patents

Stereotype of Copying the Competition

Novell VP Brushes Off Microsoft’s Attacks on GNU/Linux, Promotes .NET

Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell

Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn (Groklaw on Mono)

Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn

●● September 2009

Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and More

Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent

Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?

Richard Stallman is Not the Bad Guy

Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell

Alan Cox in 2002: “Microsoft Has Publicly Stated That it Has Patents on Critical Parts of .NET and Will Enforce Them”

Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman

gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft

Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft

More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence

Is Mono WISE? (WISE = Windows Interface Source Environment)

Is Mono WISE?

Unrest in OpenSUSE Grows, Mono Faces Opposition Also

How Novell is Monetising FUD ("Now they embrace and extend Linus’ own baby, Git, using C#/GitSharp.")

How Novell is Monetising FUD

●● August 2009

Another Warning Sign for Mono Proponents: NTFS and FAT

Both Developers and Users Are Not Interested in Mono

More Monkey and MonkeyLight Business

Trusting Mono While Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux Left and Right

Moonlight and Mono Lack Demand

Novell Fails with Moonlight

Mono Team Puts Microsoft’s GPL-incompatible Licence and Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux

Why Sqlite Sharp Can Harm GNU/Linux

Novell Ignores Microsoft’s Community Promise Limitations

Befriending the Sworn Enemy

More Novell, Microsoft, Software Patents, and Mono Insults

Monopoly and Monocrisy ("New example of Mono hypocrisy")

Monopoly and Monocrisy

Microsoft .NET Tries to Piggyback OLPC, Novell Helps the Same Cause

●● July 2009

Why Microsoft Hates Java and How Novell’s Mono Helps Microsoft Fight It

Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates? (on "Pro-mono Zealotry")

Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates?

Novell Still Serves Microsoft with Mono

If C# is Declining, Do We Need Mono Anymore?

Mono Roundup: Suppression of Speech, Extension, and Deception

Why Mono Redefines Free Software

New F-Spot/Banshee Ties Pose a Microsoft Patent Threat

Why Novell and Ubuntu Suppress Opposition of Mono

More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell ("A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation")

●● June 2009

More People Say “No” to Mono, Including the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)

Mono Proponents Do Not Address the Real Questions

GNOME’s Evolution Proceeds as Planned?

Microsoft and Novell Still Fight for .NET Inside GNU/Linux

Responses to Richard Stallman’s Verdict on Mono

Reader’s Article: Mono as a One-way Bridge (to Windows)

Why free software shouldn’t depend on Mono or C# — by Richard M. Stallman

Latest Lies and Denials from Mono Advocates, Microsoft

Microsoft on “Embrace and Extend”, the “Windows API Franchise”

Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”

Open/SUSE and .NET

Reader’s Article: Mono and (Anti)Trust

Please Don’t Replace the GIMP with F-Spot (Mono)

Whisper Campaigns Against Gnote ("Response to disinformation about Gnote, a substitute to the Mono-encumbered Tomboy")

Whisper Campaigns Against Gnote

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/19/mono-poll-and-news/

New Push for Gnote in Ubuntu by Default ("Another step towards abolishment of Mono as by-default component")

New Push for Gnote in Ubuntu by Default

Debian is Not Including Mono by Default, Yet

Case Study: The Harms of Mono

Signs of Mono Unrest, Legal Issues

Criticism of Mono Now “Disappearing”

SUSE Interoperability and Mono Good for Microsoft: Easier Migration to Windows

In Fedora, Tomboy and Banshee Depend on Winforms ("Banshee brings Winforms with it after all (not part of ECMA reference)")

In Fedora, Tomboy and Banshee Depend on Winforms

Real-time Linux Hacker Bill Huey Called the Mono Plan “Misguided”

Rally to Put More Mono in Ubuntu Backfires, Users Left Concerned by Mono

Novell Develops for Windows Development Tools

Mono Critique Almost a Taboo in Ubuntu Forums, Ideas, Bugs, and Mailing Lists

Why Mono (and Moonlight) is Microsoft’s Embrace

Ubuntu is Censoring Opposition to Mono by Default

Microsoft is Using Mono and MonoDevelop to Leverage Windows and .NET

How Novell Harms GNU/Linux Programming

Fedora Leaves Mono Out, OpenSUSE Has Second Thoughts, and So Should Ubuntu

“I Believe Gnote is Also Slated for Inclusion by Default in Debian and Ubuntu”

Ubuntu Users Plead to Keep Novell’s Banshee Out (and Other Miscellaneous Mono News)

GNOME Zeitgeist Decides Not to Go with Mono

Easy-LTSP Dumps Mono/C#, Rewritten in Python Instead

Red Hat Replaces Tomboy with Gnote, Removes Mono Dependency

Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart

Does Ubuntu Forums Threaten to Ban Opposition to Mono?

●● May 2009

More on Novell’s Finances: SUSE and Mono Failures

Gnote Can Save GNOME from Mono

Reddit Accommodated by Mono Boosters, Including Novell Employees

Gnote’s Objection to Mono and Microsoft’s ‘Embrace’ of Java

Gnote Explodes in Popularity

Ubuntu’s Mono Booster Calls it “Monobuntu”

Licence to Use Microsoft Moonlight and Mono Not Possible?

Saving SELinux from Mono Before It’s Too Late?

Mono Wants to be Everywhere

Gnote Enters Ubuntu GNU/Linux (Karmic) ("Gnote, a Mono-free replacement for Tomboy, has already entered Fedora and Debian. Now it is also in Ubuntu.")

Gnote Enters Ubuntu GNU/Linux (Karmic)

Gnote Enters Debian, UbuntuOne Has No Mono

Canonical Hires Noveller, Job Probably Won’t Include Mono

GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users” ("A lot of Mono and Moonlight coverage is still coming from the Microsoft-faithful crowd")

GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users”

Who Covers Mono Again? Microsoft.

Ubuntu Makes Novell’s Mono a “Master Of The Universe” (MOTU)

MonoDevelop Moves to Windows, Gnote Comes to GNU/Linux (as Default)

New Version of Gnote Released, Already Earns New Users Who Boast Mono Relief

Red Hat: We Should Probably Look at Switching out Tomboy with Gnote in the Fedora 12 Panel Configuration

Novell Vice President Loves Linux Hater, Who Attacks KDE

Subject: (PATCH) Add CONFIG_MONO_NO_CREATE WITH_MS_PATENTS option

Gnote Enters Fedora

The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable

Gnote is a Lot Faster and a Lot Lighter Than Tomboy

Gnote Finds Its Way Into Debian and Ubuntu?

●● April 2009

Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C# ("For those who are looking to detoxify their GNU/Linux distribution which contains GNOME, Gnote 0.3.0 is finally out.")

Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C#

Microsoft-funded Media Player to Become Ubuntu’s Default?

Parody: BN Announces Community Novell Review: Patents Cited in Future Mono-Targeted Litigations to be Placed on BN Defenders Wiki

Novell Quietly Releases SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension as a Product

From “Microsoft Religion” to “Mono Religion”

Announcement: Mono-Free Tomboy Replacement (Gnote) Releases Version 0.2.0

Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling

Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)

“Desperately Seeking Patent Tax” (Microsoft, Novell, and Mono)

Novell is “Impressed” by Miguel de Icaza… Well, So is Microsoft

Project of the Day: GNote ("The trailblazing route away from Mono seems clearer thanks to GNote")

Project of the Day: GNote

The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited

Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’

Microsoft Uses Novell, Likewise, and Ignorance to Market Its Products

Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL ("Here is a recent video where de Icaza expresses his feelings about Microsoft.")

Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL

(Mo)NoDevelop is Liked by Microsoft and Novell, Not by the GNU/Linux Crowd

Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer

●● March 2009

Novell Releases Poisonware Factory 2.0 (MonoDevelop)

TomTom Caves; Will Microsoft Start Charging for Mono Next?

The Mono Trap

SLED 11 is About Microsoft .NET

Microsoft Novell Tag-Team ("With Novell’s hand in the code, Novell products like Mono continue treading towards KDE.")

Microsoft Novell Tag-Team

Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together

Novell Happy About KDE Bindings for Mono and .NET

Kodak Groks Mono After Large Investment from Bill Gates, Novell Props up Silverlight

Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid (Microsoft) Mouthpiece” ("Backlash against Novell; Ubuntu is rumoured to be considering abolishment of Mono")

Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid (Microsoft) Mouthpiece”

At Novell, Polluting GNU/Linux with Microsoft Technologies is “Taking Over the World”

Novell Becomes Closer to Microsoft — Abolish Mono and Moonlight

Intellectual Novell Property in GNU/Linux

Novell Committed to Microsoft Technologies, But Not so Much to Free Desktop (RadeonHD)

●● February 2009

Novell Pollutes GNU/Linux, Microsoft Almost Pollutes ODF

Novell Spreads More .NET in Mac OS X, Windows, Leads to Patent Trouble

Novell Tumbles, But Not the ‘Novellsoft’ Part of the Company

Novell Enables Microsoft Distributions

Quote of the Day: “Mono Simply Ratifies .Net”

Novell’s Jaffe on Novell’s Linux Strategy: .NET, Mono, Moonlight, Nothing About OpenSUSE

New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’

Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE

Androids ‘Bricked’ by Microsoft Mono

Miguel Goes to Microsoft

How Novell Helps Microsoft Attack GNU/Linux (Except for SUSE)

●● January 2009

Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on Mono

When Mono Helps Microsoft Windows and Excludes GNU/Linux

How Novell Leverages Microsoft .NET to Market Itself

What Miguel & Novell Do to GNOME

Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices

How Microsoft Really Feels About .NET in Linux/UNIX

Microsoft SVP on GNU/Linux and .NET

Microsoft: Use .NET to Fight GNU/Linux, Use Patents Against Clones (Mono)

Quick Mention: Mono Goes Fighting Java on Android

Novell’s Mono: Imitating a Failing Technology

●● December 2008

Quick Mention: KDE and .NET

What Samba Can Teach Us About Mono

Mono a Second-Class Citizen Even on GNU/Linux

Mono Fans Owe an Apology: The Evolution of Mono Continues

The Threat of Mono as Basis of Applications (or: “Why GIMP is Different”)

Mono is Only for Novell, Says Microsoft Ally

Microsoft Tries to ‘Surrogate’ Free Software with Windows-only, Patent-encumbered, Microsoft-controlled ‘Open Source’

OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows ("The Mono effort has also led to a Novell effort called Moonlight which is an attempt to enable Microsoft’s Silverlight media framework on Linux.")

OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows

Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED)

Why the OpenSUSE FAQ Misses the Point

Microsoft Wants One Throat to Choke ("Microsoft’s plan is to group everything inside Novell and under Mono (.NET), then treating GNU/Linux users as though they are jailed in a pen (technical and legal vulnerability).")

Microsoft Wants One Throat to Choke

Novell Builds Bridges… for Microsoft to ‘Steal’ Open Source

Mono Quote to Bear in Mind (“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”)

Mono Quote to Bear in Mind

Beware the Mono

●● November 2008

Mono Critique Goes a Long Way Back

Mono Tries to Enter KDE

While the World is Asleep, Mono with Microsoft-patented WinForms Slips into Ubuntu 9.04

Jose Explains Why Not Mono

Microsoft, With Novell’s Help, Locks GNU/Linux Users Out of Innovation

Microsoft Willing to Sell Us ‘Protection’ for Use of Mono

Reader’s Post: The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono

Calling Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenMoko to Resolve Mono Problem, Not Ignore It

Quick Mention: Removing Microsoft/Novell from Ubuntu 8.10

Monoment (sic) of Novell’s Demise

Request for Mono Licence from Microsoft: Ascending to Nicos Tsilas

●● October 2008

Reader’s Proposal for Combating Free Software-hostile Patents

Quick Mention: When Mono Messes Up Your Server…

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Novell

SUSE Linux to be Powered by More Microsoft .NET?

Microsoft Makes New Friends in Open Source World — for Windows, .NET, Silverlight

On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’

Microsoft Does Not Reply to Request for Mono Patent Protection

Microsoft Pressures for WAMP While Novell Helps ‘Infect’ AMP ("“[It's] all written in .NET, just for patent ambush purposes and infection,” says one knowledgeable reader. Only Novell customers are said to be 'protected' and, according to this reader, “all the “free tools” that Microsoft releases are strangely written in .NET for infection purposes.”")

Microsoft Pressures for WAMP While Novell Helps ‘Infect’ AMP

The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie

Mono Watch: Where Is It All Coming From?

Novell Incorporated: Convergence of Windows and GNU/Linux Since 2006

Marcel Gagné on Mono, OOXML, and More

Novell’s Linux Poison® (Mono) Reaches 2.0, Contains Extra Cyanide (WinForms)

BoycottNovell Goes Shopping for Mono Patent ‘Protection’

Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus

●● September 2008

Experiments in KDE and Mono

Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part II

Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part I

Microsoft Acquires Novell(’s Direction)

Microsoft Admitted Mono is a Patent Trap Back in 2006 (Updated)

ECMA and Mono: It’s Complicated

Reader’s Take on Microsoft, Novell, and Miguel de Icaza

At Novell, Software Development is Microsoft Cloning (MicroFOSS)

●● August 2008

Interlude: What Mono Could be All About

Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company

He Who Imitates Microsoft Will Suffer from Its Flaw

Quick Mention: Miguel de Icaza Loves .NET, Dislikes GNU GPL

Novell’s Hack Week: Mono, Ports to Windows, Mac OS X

Who is Promoting Mono Anyway?

Mono ‘Guard’ Found in Ubuntu Forums

Mono: ECMA Does Not Make It Safe

Miguel de Icaza on ‘Superb’ Microsoft Lock-ins

No Mono in Fedora 10 (“Cambridge”) Live CD

While Everyone is Sleeping, Mono Sneaks Into KDE

Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono

Mono Spreads, Fails

Groklaw: Microsoft and Novell Poison OpenOffice.org; Watch Out, KDE

Another Reason to Avoid Mono: Security

Novell’s Mono in Microsoft’s Clouds

Of Microsoft’s Plans for GNU/Linux and Tinfoil Hats

Even Microsoft Uses Free Software, So Why Does Novell Harness Microsoft?

Novuel’s de Icaza: The Man Who Gives GNU/Linux to Microsoft

●● July 2008

Mono is Too Controversial for Debian

Embracing and Extending SVN — the Microsoft Way

●● June 2008

Why Is Mono in Fedora? Nobody Knows… It’s Possibly a Secret

Novell Brings Mono and OpenOffice.org Even Closer

Reader’s Thoughts on Mark Shuttleworth’s Response (Regarding Microsoft Codecs)

Software Patent Deals, Mono, and Other Legal Timebombs

Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux ("In other words — and also to sum this up in a way — Novell received Microsoft’s endorsement and money in exchange for the crown in the datacentre, higher priority to OOXML as a document format, and .NET as the API of choice. Why again do some people still support Novell?")

Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux

●● May 2008

Novell and Mono: The Kiss of Death to Free Software

Reader’s Article: Novell, Mono and RAND

OOXML and Mono: Not So Different After All

Pondering Novell Mono and DRM

Op-Ed: Novell Pollutes Free Software (and GNU/Linux) in Preparation for Microsoft Attacks

Mono Developers: From .NET Boosting to Java Bashing?

Quick Mention: “Make Your Distro Free of Miguel de Icaza’s Junk Code”

Mono “..and still nothing on whether WinForms is legally safe to use.”

Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL

A Former Ximian Employee Finds Greener Pastures (Red Hat)

●● April 2008

Novell+Ximian=SLED.NET, Sun+Java=SuSE GNU/Linux/Solaris

Novell and GNOME Help Microsoft and .NET’s Fight Against Sun and Java

Mono-free GNOME: “Roughly the Same Functionality”

SpeC#ulation: Tipping Point for GNOME?

Why Again is the Novell/Microsoft Deal So Darn Ugly?

●● March 2008

Quote of the Day: On Google Sponsorship of Microsoft’s .NET

Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop

MonoDevelop in the Press, Which Totally Misses the Point

Is Novell’s Strategy .NET Software on Top of GNU/Linux?

Novell’s Mono and Microsoft’s Plot to Use Mono/.NET to ‘Punish’ GNU/Linux

Member of the GNOME Foundation on Tomboy, Mono, GNOME

Novell Releases the Code Factory Which Threatens Free Software

The Microsoft-Novell Employee Swap, Intersection

A Letter from a Reader, About Miguel de Icaza

Miguel Asked for an Explanation, Full Disclosure About Novell/Microsoft Deal

Is Mono Now Officially a Software Patent Trap?

Quick Mention: Miguel’s Eureka Moment

Will Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets Soon Be Infected by Mono, XAML? What About Qt?

Novell Loves .NET, Copyrights Code

●● February 2008

Novell-Microsoft Assimilation, Phase II

Quick Mention: Novell’s Mono Evolves and Approaches Evolution

Quick Mention: Novell+Mono Discussion

Novell’s Mono in Fedora 8

The Overlooked Issue of Development with .NET in GNU/Linux

Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu

Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents

OpenSUSE Rants, KDE Mono Bindings

How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software Patents from the Back Door

What Does Samsung’s Linux Deal Mean to Android and Mono?

Closer Than You Think: Microsoft and Novell Collaborations

Novell: The .NET Company

●● January 2008

Wake Up Already, GNOME, Please Wake Up

Quote of the Day: Slashdot Users on Novell’s Mono in GNOME

Novell’s Mono Seen as Controversial

Quote of the Day: On Mono, Novell and Microsoft

On Beagle’s Increasing Mono-ization and Novell’s Role

Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice President

Quick Mention: Windows ISV Tries to ‘Shove’ .NET into Mobile Linux Consortium

Microsoft’s Latest: Want Olympics on Linux? Get Mono (and Pay ‘Patent Tax’)

●● December 2007

The Mono Trap and the Open/Closed Promises

The Story of a Novell Marionette ("It’s not a coincidence, but Ximian may represent a point in time when Novell began looking at another programming universe — one that it barely controls.")

The Story of a Novell Marionette

Mono and OOXML Unwanted in the Free Desktop

Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on the GNOME Desktop

Pick Your (Patent) Poison

●● November 2007

Jamie from the GNOME Foundation Gets It

GNOME Foundation, Please Stop Attacking the Messenger and Please Listen

A Reader’s Take on the Dangers of Software Patents and Microsoft’s Role

A Quick Look at Mono Licensing and Microsoft Licensing

IBM’s Standards Vice President Asks About Mono-free Linux

GNOME and Novell: The FUD Never Existed

Necessary Cloning versus Unnecessary Cloning

Criticise Mono for Patents, Get Attacked

Love GNOME, Beware of Mono

Europe Takes a Look at Microsoft’s .NET (/Mono) Web Hijack Attempts

Attempts to ‘Infect’ Google’s Android with Microsoft IP Tax?

The GNU/Linux Pen O’ Sheep ("By throwing all eggs in the single basket which is Novell (e.g. Mono, ‘interoperability’, and Moonlight), Microsoft is hoping to assemble all Linux users (currently spread across 500+ Linux distributions) in a single ‘box’ and then eliminate them.")

The GNU/Linux Pen O’ Sheep

What Lies Beneath (Another Mono Alert)

Quick Mention: Novell Talent Loss — Joe Shaw Departs

Clarifications About GNOME

GNOME-Mono Dependency Revisited

Quick Mention: Recent News on Patents and IP