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.
...don't forget grep.
If you are going to whine about this at least mention the tools
that more than likely represent widely published prior art.
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