Hello, > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4557 > > Miguel and Novell legal staff are currently conducting a formal patent review > of mono, and the team had already split up the components of mono into > separate ECMA-based and non-ECMA components (WinForms, ADO.NET, etc) to > clearly define what RedHat and others could make use of. > > Importantly, Miguel also said that Ximian had a letter from Microsoft, Intel > and HP stating that they would offer *royalty-free* RAND licensing to the > ECMA-submitted components of .NET. [Aside: He said they were kicking around > catchy names like 'polio' or 'cholera' to distinguish the free and non-free > stacks] I told Miguel he should publicize the letter more because it was such > a relief to me, but he said it would be premature to promote this before the > patent review was complete in case other infringement was uncovered.
Just for the record, the name is not `polio' or `cholera', its either `poly' or `color', but the opposite of Mono (poly=many, mono=single; color vs single color) ;-) _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
