hi everyone,

i've been reading some very serious stuff about GNOME/Novell and MONO, and i'm really concerned because GNOME was born to be free, was born to be a replacement of KDE because QT in those times wasn't using GPL.

but now GNOME depends to much in technology that has a lot to do with microsoft, there are too many dependencies to MONO.

tomboy, banshee, beagle etc, all depend on MONO....
and now even gnumeric is about to be commited to m$-ooxml.

can ubuntu give us a free MONO GNOME?

how about start using other desktop?
should ubuntu become KDE centric?
what about ubuntu standardize in E17?

What Lies Beneath (Another Mono Alert)


"In response to criticisms about GNOME’s role in OOXML, Jeff Waugh has just assured Richard Stallman (whom I spoke to yesterday) that a statement will shortly be made to clarify where GNOME stands on the issue of OOXML."

what have you girls and boys of ubuntu FLOSS to say about this?

thank's

RJ