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____/ Mart van de Wege on Saturday 16 May 2009 19:12 : \____
> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> In article <86fxf5o00q.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Mart van de Wege <mvdwege_public@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> The parts of Mono that might be under patents, other than the clones of
>>> >> ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Windows Forms are covered by the ECMA and ISO
>>> >> standards. All the patents necessary to implement those are covered by
>>> >> a royalty-free RAND license.
>>>
>>> Don't lie.
>>>
>>> C# is merely under a RAND license. The ECMA patent statement says
>>> *nothing* about royalty-free.
>>>
>>> If you start out by lying about easily verified things, why should we
>>> believe any more drivel coming from you?
>>
>> Wrong as usual. ECMA and ISO only require RAND, but Microsoft, Intel,
>> and HP (the submitters) went farther than the minimal requirement and
>> choose to go both RAND *and* royalty-free.
>
> So where is that in the patent statement? Please be so kind as to show
> me the actual *legally* *binding* documents that state that Microsoft
> will license all patents covered by the ECMA standards royalty-free to
> all comers?
>
> Why don't you for once give actual evidence for your assertions?
>
> Mart
There is none. I've been through this discussion in many places before. And
it's the extensions that make it more patent tax/EEE-enabled.
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