On Monday 08 June 2009 10:30:12 am Remco wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mackenzie Morgan<maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand why the term "application framework" is any better > > than a pile of libraries and languages that work together, but I think it'd be > > extremely difficult for Microsoft to try to argue that .NET is older than GTK+, > > Qt, C, C++, and Python. > > We're still being a Microsoft technology user, which is what Mark > Shuttleworth didn't want, and is the reason why Wine is not included > in Ubuntu. Ubuntu is supposed to be a collection of amazing free > software, not a gratis Microsoft Windows. Consider that the Windows > platform nowadays *is* .NET. Win32 is deprecated.
And in using Flash, we're Adobe technology users (even if, like I do, you use swfdec instead of Adobe's plugin). Sometimes pragmatism is needed to gain enough users for the critical mass that would let us push back. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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