Re: Article Idea: Fedora including Mono in FC 5

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

Hi, Thomas!

Looks to me, you're on the right track. Most of your questions including
the one about the submission deadline should be answered here:

 http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal

and 

 http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal_2fArticleSubmissionQueue

Have fun writing!

Cheers,
Claus

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:03:26 +1100
Thomas McMahon <thmcmahon gmail com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
>