On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:27:50PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > They have, in fact, declared that they will not assert IP over other > implementations of the CLR. It's for the CLR only, but not the other > stuff. > > A bare implementation of the ECMA standards is covered by a grant in > the standards itself.
Then a likely M$ strategy is to make you feel safe about CLR implementations but always have .NET apps depend on something ELSE that isn't covered by the patent right grant. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
