Re: Article Idea: Fedora including Mono in FC 5

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Hi Thomas, welcome to the list. :-)

I'm not sure how forthcoming RH will be about why they've decided
to allow mono apps.  Blizzard was fairly close mouthed when I tried
to pry out why. :-)

You might also consider that Blizzard's latest blog was an attempt
at spin to show that Mono wasn't important so much as the apps were.
This might mean that RH does not want undue public scrutinization of
the decision to use Mono or maybe to distract from the words 
"economic and business" reason.

If I were you, I would try to do some sleuthing and see what RH has
been up to (eg press releases) and what not and try to determine
by yourself what the economic and business reason for the change.
Be nice though and run it by some RH employees.

I hope I'm not scaring you with the details..  I'm just pointing
at hopefully an interesting approach from my point of view.

I hope that helps.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:26:38PM +1100, Thomas McMahon wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> This is my first post to this list so "Hi!". I was just thinking that
> a good idea for an article would be to have a look at the recent
> decision by Red Hat (or was it Fedora) to allow Mono into Fedora Core
> 5. I think that this is is of interest for most Gnome users/developers
> as a lot of the exciting new apps for Gnome are Mono apps.
> 
> I think that a lok into what the motivations for this acceptance are
> (see if someone can get beyond Christopher Blizzard's [is that his
> actual name?] reason of "Some (of the reasons to add mono to Fedora)
> were business-related and others were strategic in nature"). As well
> as a response from people in the Mono commuinty (maybe Miguel de Icaza
> would like to comment).
> 
> I also think a quick examination of why this is important for Gnome
> users would be good (ie. a little analysis of Mono's future in Gnome).
> 
> If you guys think that this has already been discussed enough on
> Planet Gnome or Slashdot or whatever your favourite tech news site is,
> then that's OK. I just think a more in depth look at why this is
> important would be interesting to the Gnome community.
> 
> Hope you like the idea!
> 
> Thomas McMahon
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