Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> Perhaps keep it as an option, but maybe not included by default?
> Software patents do not apply outside of Nafta and Australia, so
> there's no particular issue for the rest of us.
Other than the fact that .NET is utterly superfluous, supports part of
Microsoft's quest for continued domination, poisons the Free Software
community with Microsoft's broken development paradigm, dilutes Free
Software development resources by encouraging developers to waste time
bug-fixing Windows clients, divides the Free Software community into
partisan groups who waste time arguing about patents rather than
working, diverts development away from Java (just as it was designed to
do, as a slap in the face to Sun for their MS litigation, and a means of
"controlling" virtual machine technology, discouraging fully compatible
cross-platform development), and may (at some time in the future) help
to support Microsoft's claims of "IP infringement" in GNU/Linux (since
not *all* parties who develop with Mono can know *exactly* what is or is
not covered by the ECMA RAND "guarantee" - such as it is).
But apart from that it's fine.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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