On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:36:00PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Isn't embrace and extend their whole model.
The thing is, I probably wouldn't ever write an app that used
something beyond the CLR spec, but naturally, if you use the MS dev
tools, they don't clearly distinguish that for you.
David
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