On 2009-07-17, Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <3969847.5uOaCGIn1n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> quoted the FSF:
>> The ECMA 334 and 335 specifications describe the core C# language, including
>> information about standard libraries that must be available in any compliant
>> implementation. However, there are several libraries that are included with
>> Mono, and commonly used by applications like Tomboy, that are not required by
>> the standard. And just to be clear, we're not talking about Windows-specific
>> libraries like ASP.NET and Windows Forms. Instead, we're talking about
>> libraries under the System namespace that provide common functionality
>> programmers expect in modern programming languages: binary object
>> serialization, regular expressions, XPath and XSLT, and more.
>>
>> Because these libraries are not defined in the ECMA specifications,
>> they are not protected in any way by Microsoft's Community Promise.
>
> If Microsoft has patents covering regular expressions, XPath, and other
> such functionality programmers expect in modern programming languages,
> then we are at as much risk from those patents if we use PHP, or Python,
> or Perl, or Ruby, or any of the other numerous things on Linux that
> implement those.
...it just occured to me that Chomsky himself could end up dragged
into something like this. Now that would be something worth charging
admission to see. It could be an internet pay-per-view event. '-)
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