On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:06:32 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Mono's demise bad news for open source
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>| It's also based on Windows technology. Mono is a "clean-room"
>| clone of Microsoft's .Net development platform, written for
>| Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
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>| When Novell's Miguel de Icaza first began work on Mono, people
>| said he was crazy.
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> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/0EC99FBB73788FF1CC25723E0007ADDA
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> Neil McAllister is an Open Source basher. This was said many times before in
> a variety of Web sites, so his views on the trend/event is worth ignoring
> while the demise of .Net is the news worth cheering about. Mono is an IP
> timebomb from Novell.
Ridiculous. Certainly, some parts of Mono, such as the Winforms
implementaiton are not part of the ECMA or ISO standard, but the parts that
are cannot be subject to Intellectual Property lawsuits because Microsoft
has issued an irrevocable covenant not to sue for that.
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