On 07/29/02 Rusty wrote: > 1) Bigger part of .Net is MS?s proprietary intellectual property (IP), > which is not covered by any standards and is protected by MS?s patents > and copyright.
You seem highly confused about what copyright means. We are not copying their code (we don't even look at the rotor sources like some other CLR implementations). > 3) MS warned Mono not to infringe on its IP. Everyone can do that. We do it, too, on our web site, we ask people to not disassemble/decompile the ms implementation. > 4) MS can sue (and/or threaten to sue) Mono and anyone who uses Mono if > MS?s IP is infringed upon MS can sue (and/or threaten to sue) anyone. > 5) MS does not ?like? Linux and Open Source: Many people don't like ms, so what? > 6) At any time MS can introduce a new patented feature into the > standardized part of .Net to make any implementation, including Mono, > to be incompatible with the one provided by MS. Ask the ECMA people what they think about that. > 8) Recent changes to the Mono license allow MS to hijack certain parts > of Mono, if so desired. If you take a copy of a file from our corlib, surprise, we still got a copy. > With reference to the above: > 1) Has Mono consulted with a competent legal advisor to make sure that > it does not *currently* infringe on MS?s IP? Did you check with your competent legal advisor that the word ".Net" you wrote in your email is a (pending) trademark of ms and that they may require you to acknowledge that and god knows what else? > 2) How does Mono plan to ensure that MS does not introduce a new, > patented feature into the standardized part of .Net, which would make > Mono implementation incompatible with one by MS? We have infiltrated a bug in the bill gates office that will tickle him any time he tries to do or approve such things. Pretty impressive technology, if you ask me. > 3) How does Mono plan to implement the bigger portion of .Net that is > not covered by the standard and is protected by MS?s patents and > copyright? I use gvim, but some poor souls out there use emacs. > 4) What options will Mono users have if Mono is sued and then shutdown > by MS? What they should do anyway: tell their congressmen that the us patent system is useless and/or move to free countries. lupus / could not resist, sorry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
