[clug] Mono in Linux

[Nathan O'Sullivan]

As someone who develops web applications in Visual Studio and deploys on 
Mono, my opinion is probably biased.

That said, the core of most anti-Mono arguments seem to be that (to 
quote) "Microsoft still holds patents in relation to these standards".

Do they? Which patents? I've never seen any patents specifically named. 
And how do these patents manage to cover C# but not Java?

Regards
Nathan



Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:52:20PM +1000, Chris Smart wrote:
>   
>> For anyone interested, I've written a CC article with my perspective
>> on Mono/.NET in Linux distros.
>> I would appreciate any feedback and corrections, especially if someone
>> can provide Fedora / Yum instructions.
>>
>> "http://blog.christophersmart.com/articles/mono-an-infectious-disease/"
>>     
>
> Untested but I think you want:
> # Remove all mono packages.
> sudo yum erase -y mono-\*
> # Ensude they do no come back
> sudo sed '/^\[main\]$/a exclude=mono-\*' /etc/yum.conf
>
> For yum based distros.
>
> Yours Tony
>