Slashdot: Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-162882/slashdot:mono-squeezed-into-debian-default-installation Posts in the discussion thread "Slashdot: Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation" - OS News reports that Debian developer Josselin Mouette got Tomboy accepted as a dependency for gnome in the next release of Debian (codenamed Squeeze). While that may seem like nothing big (except for the 50 MByte size of the Tomboy package), Tomboy requires Mono — meaning that Mono will now be installed by default. Apparently, Debian doesn't have the same concerns over using specifications patented by Microsoft and licensed under undisclosed terms that Red Hat does. Perhaps Debian doesn't believe that Microsoft might do something like Rambus did. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:59:56 +0000 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-162882#post-509362 Slashdot: Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-162882/slashdot:mono-squeezed-into-debian-default-installation#post-509362 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:21:32 +0000 zoobab 2946 "OS News reports that Debian developer Josselin Mouette got Tomboy accepted as a dependency for gnome in the next release of Debian (codenamed Squeeze). While that may seem like nothing big (except for the 50 MByte size of the Tomboy package), Tomboy requires Mono — meaning that Mono will now be installed by default. Apparently, Debian doesn't have the same concerns over using specifications patented by Microsoft and licensed under undisclosed terms that Red Hat does. Perhaps Debian doesn't believe that Microsoft might do something like Rambus did."

Source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/1251228/Mono-Squeezed-Into-Debian-Default-Installation

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