Striking the Right Gnote
You might imagine that an application for desktop notes would be too commonplace to generate controversy. Yet when Hubert Figuiere created Gnote, a port of the GNOME application Tomboy to C++, controversy erupted immediately.
Tomboy, you see, is written in Mono, an implementation of Microsoft's .NET that many fear is patent-encumbered, and might be used against the free software community one day. That hasn't happened in the six years of its existence, but the concern remains widespread, partly legitimate and partly conspiracy theory and demagoguery. Against this background, Gnote was hailed as the liberation of a Mono-encumbered application, as you can see in the responses to the release announcements.
Unfortunately, this reception has two things wrong with it: Figuiere insists that "this has nothing to do with Mono," and the concerns that Tomboy developers have about Gnote are minor and have little to do with programming languages.
An unlikely hero and his reasons
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