[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:21:11PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
I'll bet this is all about Mono. There are almost certainly some things
in C# that you cannot implement without stomping on Microsoft patents.
Good point! I was wondering why Novel was worried about patents.
Then you reminded me of Mono. Does this deal mean Mono has no worries now?
...
Chris
This deal means nothing to anyone but Microsoft. It is not a covenant
between Microsoft and Novell, it is a covenant between Microsoft and
Novell's non-commercial customers (especially developers) and between
Novell and Microsoft's customers. In other words, both companies made
deals on _our_ behalf, that as long as we don't make money from FOSS
software, they won't sue us for the next five years.
As this (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/20061109a.html) article
points out, this deal is worse than no deal.
As far as Novell is concerned, they are now deader to me than Microsoft
(whom I already knew to be a snake).
As for Mono, I'd say there is even more reason to stay away from it, or
anything using it if you are a developer. Note that neither M$ nor
Novell explicitly say if there is or is not any of their respective IP
in the other's products. So we have no way of knowing whether this is
mafia style racketeering or merely huff-puffery.
If I were still a developer, I would not even set eyes on any Mono code.
Too much chance that M$ has now decided that since their proxy SCOX has
failed, it's time to do the job themselves, with targets being anyone
who has touched their precious with any of their five senses.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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