{"id":610,"date":"2009-05-28T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2009-05-28T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:33:42","slug":"novell-redhat-and-mono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Novell, RedHat, and Mono"},"content":{"rendered":"

So let me see if I have this straight.<\/p>\n

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  1. RedHat publicly states how upset they are with the Novell\/Microsoft patent deal.<\/li>\n
  2. RedHat, in a completely unrelated <\/em>decision, decides not to include Mono as a standard core package in their Enterprise Linux, now or ever. Some developers are sad because this means their .NET packages can not become standard RHEL packages.<\/li>\n
  3. Other developers continue to use Novell’s Mono repository and shrug.<\/li>\n
  4. Novell, in another completely unrelated move, no really<\/em>, decides to stop supporting RPM format releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.<\/li>\n
  5. Novell completely removes all existing RPM packages for RHEL from the internet, ensuring that anyone who is currently shipping a product based on previously <\/em>released binaries is now screwed if they make any new sales.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Mono developers are left to dangle in the wind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So… after a moment of thought, I guess the only rational, levelheaded reaction to this is fuck you Novell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Apologies to anyone whose sensitive ears were damaged by the mention of Microsoft earlier in this little article, but it was necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So let me see if I have this straight. RedHat publicly states how upset they are with the Novell\/Microsoft patent deal. RedHat, in a completely unrelated decision, decides not to include Mono as a standard core package in their Enterprise Linux, now or ever. Some developers are sad because this means their .NET packages can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[205,206],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-mono","tag-novell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}