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Microsoft 'bars' Mono from conference

Posted by tadelste on · 5 comments
UK.Builder.com; By Ingrid Marson
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Mono project founder Miguel de Icaza claims that Microsoft prevented the open source project from holding a meeting at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft states on its conference Web site that its 'Birds of a Feather' sessions are proposed and voted on by the community. But the Mono BOF was never listed for voting and therefore received no votes, despite the submission being confirmed, according to De Icaza's blog.

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Comments (5)

But they show up at Linux World to give us the facts.
What facts? True Facts? or is it False Facts or No Facts at all!
Could it possibly be that going for the whole Microsoft "C#" thing and jumping on the .NET bandwagon wasn't necessarily a great idea?

On the other hand, I suppose it had to be tried. Thankfully, the FOSS community has a lot more diversity to work with, so if it turns out this one attempt to get in bed with Microsoft's design is a bust, it's not as though we don't have numerous free-and-open alternatives to work with instead.

Quoting: "Microsoft 'bars' Mono ..."


How do you think Microsoft will play this one, if or when they backtrack due to negative publicity?

Quoting: [made up!] Wow! What did I know, I just thought they were contagious and all!


Sounds reasonable to me.

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