Scoble: "I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to
stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue."
http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/764673949
MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal
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| Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for
| the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing
| agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent
| protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project,
| which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.
|
| Speaking on a panel at the MIX 08 conference in Las Vegas, de Icaza said that
| Novell has done the best it could to balance open-source interests with
| patent indemnification. However, if he had his way, the company would have
| remained strictly open source and not gotten into bed with Microsoft. Novell
| entered into a controversial multimillion dollar cross-patent licensing and
| interoperability deal with Microsoft in November 2006.
|
| "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," de Icaza said. He was speaking on a panel that also
| included representatives from Microsoft and open-source companies Mozilla and
| Zend.
|
| [...]
|
| De Icaza shot back that it was "unfair" of Schroepfer to paint Novell as the
| only company protected by patent covenants, as many companies have signed
| licensing agreements not only with Microsoft, but also with other companies
| such as IBM that have a large patent portfolio.
|
| [...]
|
| The choice has drawn ire from open-source diehards who were displeased with
| Novell’s decision to sign a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft in the
| first place. A Web site called “Boycott Novell” decried Moonlight as a
| Microsoft “pet project” and criticized the company’s decision not to port
| Silverlight to Linux itself.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/06/mix-novells-de-icaza-criticizes-microsoft-patent-deal
He was lying all along.
Microsoft indemnifies Novell Moonlight users
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| "We should have stayed with the open source community," de Icaza said but
| added: "That's better than saying we might be infringing but we are going to
| stick it to the man... I think we've done as well as we could."
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/06/microsoft_moonlight_patent_protection/
Blog: Is Microsoft really lending Linux a helping hand?
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| Microsoft's patent pledge is perhaps more worrying. It has promised not to
| assert patent claims against developers working on open-source projects, but
| the cover does not apply to commercial distributors of those projects, so
| distributors like Red Hat are still very much at threat. In broader terms, it
| undermines one of the basic tenants of open-source -- that the user can,
| within the licence requirements, do whatever they like with the software --
| since the user is only free from the threat of patent claims until they start
| charging money.
|
| Ultimately, Microsoft's sincerity is in question, with many speculating that
| its true motives remain hidden. If Microsoft is genuine, only consistent good
| deeds will counter its history and silence the critics.
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http://www.pcauthority.com.au/news.aspx?CIaNID=71576
It figures.
Related:
Simple mental exercise: Identify the OS!
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mono\gac\System.ServiceProcess\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.ServiceProcess.dll
mono\gac\System.Transactions\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Transactions.dll
mono\gac\System.Web.Services\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Web.Services.dll
mono\gac\System.Web\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Web.dll
mono\gac\System.Xml\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Xml.dll
mono\gac\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll
|
|
| Hint: Replace the backslashes with slashes, then prefix each path
| with /usr/lib/.
|
| The correct answer is: no, it's not Microsoft Windows, it's Debian
| GNU/Linux "Lenny" (testing), with the minimum dependencies needed to run
| F-Spot! (Actually, I guess that all not the files are needed, but this is how
| they package them, and how the dependencies are set.)
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/20/10/22/59-simple-mental-exercise-identify-
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.
|
| 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?
|
| [...]
|
| 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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