____/ Doug Mentohl on Friday 07 March 2008 14:49 : \____
> On 7 Mar, 07:34, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> He was lying all along.
>
> A little harsh, I don't think so, he just swallowed the MS.coolaid,
I took your advice, but most people are being harsh also. This one for example:
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/07/mono-moonlight-eureka/#comment-6522
> not the last unfortunatly. What ever about the technical merits of
> mono, the MS/Novell covenant in combination with MS patent warchest
> make it something you should be wary of getting contaminated with.
>
> Assuming mono becomes widely used in the commercial sector, will we
> see MS lawyers turning up at your door looking for their software
> 'rent' ..
> -------
>
> "I'm not happy about the fact that such an agreement was made, but
> [the decision] was above my pay grade; I think we should have stayed
> with the open-source community,"
>
> "Most recently, before I even knew about the Microsoft/Novell
> agreement am on the record calling for such a thing" Miguel de Icaza
> July 312007
>
> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jul-31.html
>
> Doesn't mono violate this patent already, see here where MS basically
> patents electronic communication .. :)
>
> "the present invention describes a distributed computing services
> platform for facilitating improved communications and collaboration
> across computer networks (such as the Internet)"
>
> http://snipurl.com/216ta [appft1_uspto_gov]
>
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