Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Michael B. Trausch belched out this bit
> o' wisdom:
>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:32:51 +0000 Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Although frankly the only thing anyone should ever need to know
>>> about Mono, is that it is "owned" (in the "IP" sense) by
>>> Microsoft, one of the world's most predatory and reprehensible
>>> corporations. That fact alone should ward-off anyone who values
>>> their Freedom, and who has any moral standards whatsoever.
>>
>> Do feel free to submit some proof for this.
Try paying attention next time:
[quote]
From: "Jim Miller \(.NET\)" <jsmiller[AT]microsoft.com>
[...]
RE: [Dotnet-sscli] Microsoft applies for .Net patent
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
As one of the inventors on that patent as well as the person heading up
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the standardization efforts for the CLI, I'd like to explain why I've
never felt the two are in conflict.
The ECMA process requires that all patents held by member companies that
are essential for implementing its standards are available under
"reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms" for the purpose of
implementing those Standards. This is the normal condition used in all
International Standards organizations, including both ECMA and ISO.
[...]
-----Original Message-----
From: Giuseppe Attardi [mailto:attardi[AT]di.unipi.it]
[...]
News has been published (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-984052.html)
that Microsoft applied last year for a patent that covers .Net:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685
This is quite broad claim, including all the architecture, the API, the
set of types, etc.
[/quote]
http://web.archive.org/web/20030424174805/http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html
Or perhaps the proof you want is of Microsoft's predatory and
reprehensible behaviour:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
http://boycottnovell.com/microsoft-critique-resources/
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/25/eu-crackdown-astroturfing/
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#Criticism
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/index.html
That's a small taste to get you started.
> I would put Microsofts lawyers up againsts yours any day.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/default.mspx
>
> Feel lucky, punk? ;->
He must, as he seems to walk around with his eyes closed.
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K.
http://slated.org
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