Re: Article Idea: Fedora including Mono in FC 5

[Thomas McMahon <thmcmahon gmail com>]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the response and the ideas, they have actually gotten me
enthusiastic enough about this that I will actually have a crack at
writing it.

I'm just wondering about how I should shape the article up and how long it is meant to be etc.

As far as Red Hat's motivation for the switch to Mono is concerned, I
don't think that we will be able to get anything out of Red Hat. I can
only assume that the reason that they are bringing Gnome on board in
Fedora is that it has been cleared by their Lawyers. I can only assume
that they don't see legal action from MS as being a threat anymore. I
will see if I can find a version of the Fedora "Forbidden Items" that
contains their previous statement against Mono. I can't think of any
recent events that would have changed the legal situation (ie. comments
made by Microsoft).

I'll have a hunt around to see if I can find any details about the move
by Red Hat. Surely Blizzard's blog wasn't the only place that this was
announced? 

I'm wondering how I can try and keep this as "unopionated" as possible,
as in I don't think that there should be a lot of speculation on my
behalf, as I don't really have any idea what I'm talking about. I think
the problem with a lot of comment about issues like this is that is
commentary by people who have no real reason to comment upon it.

So I'll start trying to piece together a bit of an idea about why Red
Hat did this or why it wasn't done earlier/what has changed. Then I
think getting comment by someone at Mono as to why this is a good thing
for Gnome won't be all that difficult. Then I think that should be
about it.

If you guys have any more ideas as to who might be interesting to talk
to about this, who else might be involved and prepared to talk about it
or any other issue that you see is related to this topic please write
with your suggestions. 

When is the deadline for submissions again?

Thanks for your input,

Thomas

On 1/14/06, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:

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.