• Fresh Attempts to Inject Banshee (C#) Into Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10
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[quote] Hey banshee dev/users, as some of you know, Banshee is planned to be the default for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10. The idea is to start the MeeGo interface per default, with some changes that I will push upstreamed as well (and hope you will accept them). Basically here is the summary of things that are needed and some I'm working on for default inclusion: - HAL-free banshee: the discussion already began with lamalex, alan and aaron. Apparently the branch should be reviewed this week for master inclusion. - Meego interface by default: This interface suit for UNE as it's intended to be used on laptop. No impact on traditional ubuntu desktop as in debian/ubuntu the banshee-meego is a separate package (with an additional .desktop file). I have some tweaks (for now in bzr, but I will format them in git once I've finished to play the changes): [URL="https://code.launchpad.net/%7Edidrocks/banshee/une-modif"]https://code.launchpad.net/~didrocks/banshee/une-modif[/URL]. Those are doing: * debranding (not in the code but in the display) replacing meego by netbook to be more generic * starting only one interface at a time (thanks Bertrand!): either banshee (with $ banshee) or the netbook interface ($ banshee --client=MeeGo) * quit on explicit shutdown request (still not close when clicking on the close button in the decoration bar) * enable switching on the 2 interfaces. I think this is done in the good way: if you have the MeeGo interface installed, there is one additional button in the main interface to switch to the MeeGo one. And only one is showing at a time (that is to say, when you click on the switching button, you have either the MeeGo interface, or the traditional one) - "ready to rock banshee": the idea is to minimize the amount of manipulation to be able to start listen music/reading video with banshee. For that, avoiding prompting on first launch (do you imagine if every software you use prompt at startup) and enabling the plugin for import in ~/Music and ~/Video by default seems reasonable. Prompting is really a disruptive experience. It seems others distros are already doing that. However, we have to show a way for people discovering the feature. It's possible to show a status if the collection is empty (thanks Bertrand, again!) in the main interface to say "hey, your collection is empty, you can drop music there…". If you look at the other conversion on the ML about showing things in status bar, I'm currently stuck at showing the same in the MeeGo interface, but that's a detail. Thoughts? Tell me things that can go upstream or not and I'll prepare git format-patch for them. Cheers, Didier[/quote] [URL="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/banshee-list/2010-June/msg00089.html"]Source[/URL] Microsoft’s Community Promise (MCP) does [I]not[/I] cover parts of Banshee, thus it’s a live patent trap.
I'll just quote Buttsex [QUOTE=ButtsexV2;22832477]pretty sure only rms-level FOSS zealots actually care what language software is written in.[/QUOTE]
It's not about the language, it's about the potential that Microsoft is going to make profit off of or force software in C# underground using software patents that the Microsoft community promise and standards don't cover.
Nobody gives a shit, Microsoft aren't going to pull any swifties on the Mono community any time soon. [editline]09:52AM[/editline] You do realise why they give free express versions of Visual Studio and free pro versions for students right? It's beneficial to them. Microsoft make most of their money from enterprises anyway, which is why they don't care about making money from students and hobbyists. They're more than happy to let the Mono community flourish because it is beneficial to their platform. The more people that use the CLR (including both Microsoft's .NET implementation and Mono's), the more people that are likely to use Microsoft's developer tools (because they are the best in the industry) This means more software gets written against the CLR, which means the CLR is a more attractive platform for businesses. This in turn means more money for Microsoft.
OP doesn't understand business
OP is a fruitcake
that too
"C# patent shitstorm thread" is now an official lock reason.
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