George Birbilis schrieb:
I wouldn't call the Ximian guys bad ones (even after they
were bought
by Novell), nor the GNU guys, do you?
Well, I guess you got that Microsoft "invented" .Net and
holds the .Net patents? Or didn't they tell you this at your
lessons about marketing .Net?
I don't get such lessons from MS,
You sound like this though.
not they type of guy that would be told on
what to say (did you notice I said I hate C#?)
C# is only a part of .Net and we're talking about .Net.
If it was patented in the way you mean, then those people wouldn't go for
it.
The CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) and the CLR (Common Language
Runtime) is ECMA standard and Microsoft provides a shared-source (free to
read source but not copy verbatim) implementation of the CLR. Mono is
opensource. GNU's C# compiler etc. are too opensource.
Opensource doesn't mean necessarily BSD/GPL/LGPL licensed and patent free.
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