* Miguel de Icaza peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>> 1) ... What proportion of Mono uses Microsoft's patented technology,
>> including that which is is part of the ECMA specifications?
>
> Read our policy on patents (Microsoft or otherwise):
>
> http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing
>
> Which is not different than any other open source project.
It sure as hell is different:
Both the Mono runtime and the Mono C# Compiler are also available
under a proprietary license for those who can not use the LGPL and
the GPL in their code.
For licensing details, contact mono-licensing@xxxxxxxxxx
(mailto:mono-licensing@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> 3) ... To what degree do you Trust Microsoft, either in terms of their
>> promises; their motivations; or their commitment to a competing platform
>> like Linux?
>
> This is a question that is suitable for Teen magazine or Cosmo.
>
>> 4) ... Do you foresee a point in the future where access to much of the
>> Web might be impossible, or at least extraordinarily difficult, without
>> the use of Silverlight, much like Microsoft tried to do with ActiveX and
>> other proprietary; encumbered; and non-standard technology during the
>> Netscape years?
>
> Another question suitable for Teen magazine.
>
> I have blogged extensively about this question, you might want to read
> my blog on those subjects. There are two dimensions to this problem,
> and I have addressed both: a) Microsoft providing a tool that
> people actually want to use, with a feature range of things that
> are genuinely useful while nobody else is;
Isn't that statement rather, uh, arrogant?
> (b) whether its good for Linux to be a second class citizen on the web
> when you are unable to watch content.
You need to rephrase it. The question is whether it is good to convert
citizens into second-class citizens on the web by virtue of restricting
their access to content to a format promulgated by a large, powerful,
and dominant corporation, requiring the relatively expensive purchase of
a proprietary (and unlicensed for production by any other vendor)
operating system.
--
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and
underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself
be lulled into inaction.
-- Bill Gates
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