In His Own Words: McBride
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| Suddenly, all the "fat lady" and "it ain't over till it's over" metaphors
| were trotted out. SCO isn't dead yet, look out Linux fans!
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| With all due respect to my colleagues in the press: puh-leeze.
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| First off, most people with a modicum of sense knew the litigation wasn't
| over. With bankruptcy proceedings and the SCO v. everybody cases... there was
| very little chance that this was all going to fade away into the abyss. At
| most, all of these legal proceedings will enough new cash to keep things
| going faster--provided the court approves the restucturing plan. Which, as
| far as I know, the court hasn't approved yet. The York Group reorganization
| proposal was nixed, you may recall.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-02-15-015-26-OP-CD
The new problem may be Microsoft/Mono/patents:
How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software Patents from the Back Door
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| One thing I noticed this week is that the mono group has been able to
| encumber a growing number of Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) applications with
| proprietary Microsoft technology. However, the documentation and program
| descriptions do not warn of this (of course they want to keep it under the
| radar).
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| [...]
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| A risk here is that, especially in regards to media (audio, video, pictures,
| text, etc.) it will provide a ramp for OOXML, WMA, WMV, HDPhoto, and others
| along with the prerequiste DRM.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/
I understand that Mono is a divisive issue, but several people feel somewhat
responsible for presenting the issues even if it means getting some flak.
Related:
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
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| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
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| [...]
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| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
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