Re: [Banshee-List] The dumbest error in Banshee

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 11/26/2011 04:30 PM, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> 2011/11/26 Daniel Hughes
> <trampster gmail com
> <mailto:trampster gmail com>>
>
>     I can see no evidence that the bug in question is caused by using mono.
>
>     If you have evidence that this is caused by a bug in mono please
>     link to the bug. Otherwise please stop spreading FUD.
>
>
> I'm sorry, I was talking in general and not specifically related to this
> bug (my bad, a big OT).
> BTW, after completely removing Mono (including Banshee and Tomboy)
> Ubuntu 11.10 is a *very* different system,
> more stable than before and lot responsive.
>  From my own research on several other distros there's a manifest
> pattern of bloatness when Mono is present in the
> system, not to mention the awful thing of seeing .exe files when doing a PS.
>
> I love Banshee so +1 for it.
> Mono really stinks, several thousand -1 for it.

As you replied in a slightly less troll fashion, I'm going to just care 
to reply.

We thank you very much that you like Banshee, so do we.

But Banshee without Mono wouldn't be so great as it is now.

Really, complaining from a user perspective about mono is like if I 
complain about the internal CPU a TV uses. Does it work? Yes. And let us 
the developers tell you that seriously Mono works really well, and .NET 
is a very well designed development platform. When there is a 
development platform that is better than .NET, I'll be the first one to 
switch.

So stop spreading FUD about Mono if you're user. Microsoft is not a 
plague or a virus, it's a company that sometimes may do good or bad 
things, and this is one case of a good one. The other cases in which it 
does bullshit don't necessarily need to contaminate this product. And 
let me remind you that very little code from Microsoft is actually 
inside the Mono platform (and actually, I think the very little bits 
that are inside it, are not used by Banshee anyway IIRC).

Thanks for being there as a user and applaud Banshee's goodness.

As a developer, I'll welcome your criticism over .NET or Mono when you 
bring technical arguments.

Cheers,

 Andres

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