I agree completely with Rob. Unless your someone with intimate knowledge in patent law and it's legal history, then any presupposition of what Microsoft "can" or "will" or "might" do is complete speculation. If your fears tell you to play it safe, then fine, stay away from mono, otherwise, like Rob Tillie said "..let's start coding again..". Uh, not that anyone really stopped. ;-)
-Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Is it Mono safe? Gabor wrote: > i know novell is doing a research on the licensing/whatever issues > with dotNet. > imho it would be much better to respond to these threads with a single > "wait for the results of the legal review" line, and not entering > discussions, where the mono/novell people's only arguments are their > beliefs and calculations about microsofts future moves. I would even go further, why the hell are we "developers" discussing this? When working in a firm, this is something the legal department has to do. We do not know anything about this, because we are developers, not lawyers. So, as we know nothing about legal issues, why are we over and over again discussing these? Living in the Netherlands (EU), I just cannot comprehend all the time that is put into these discussions. No offense to anyone, but plz let's start coding again and leave these discussions to people who get paid to do these. Greetz, -- Rob. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list