____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 08:25 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ [H]omer on Monday 03 March 2008 23:49 : \____
>>
>>> Tom Shelton wrote:
>>>> On 2008-03-03, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> * Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>>> On 2008-03-03, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> ____/ Doug Mentohl on Monday 03 March 2008 15:38 : \____
>>>>>>>> On 26 Feb, 16:05, Erik Funkenbusch
>>>>>>>> <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>>> Microsoft itself makes Silverlight available on both the PC
>>>>>>>>> and Mac. That makes it cross platform ..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's 'cross platform' except on Linux .. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, duh. Why would Microsoft want to assist its own
>>>>>>> bankruptcy by having its 'standard' support its worst of
>>>>>>> nightmares...?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then explain why Microsoft is providing technical assistance to
>>>>>> the Moonlight team - in the form of access to Silverlight
>>>>>> engineers and their test suites to test compatability?
>>>>>
>>>>> A trap?
>>>>
>>>> In what way? How can MS sue them for implementing something they
>>>> have explicitly helped them implement? Not sure I see the logic with
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> Naturally they help, in exactly the same way someone "helps" a rat to
>>> die by feeding it poison.
>>
>> Nice analogy.
>>
>
> Mr Shelton is a shill. MS will sue anyone who they think has money
> which can be extracted for any reason they think that they can get away
> with it. This is quite independent from anything else which they might
> be doing. In particular, Microsoft's "defence" for the helping would be
> something like "we warned everyone that linux infringed patents,
> therefore the developers knew what they were doing". Don't be conned by
> the shilcosystem.
I see these arguments coming up frequently, sometimes from Novell. "Here, have
some Mono... yes, it's infectious, but we have RAND [font=0.01], just don't
look at the gory details, go program, write good code instead of
taking[/font]..."
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