Hi, as you are new to this list, Alex, let me introduce myself to you quickly.
I'm not a NAnt developer, but rather - a bit like you - a visitor from a very similar product. I'm one of the developers of Apache Ant, the product that inspired NAnt's birth. On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Alex Kipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Scott Hernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Do you know if microsoft has any submitted or ourstanding patends on >> the technologies included in the MSBuild stuff? > > This is a tricky question but I'll do my best to answer it openly > and honestly :). > > 1) Microsoft has submitted and has some outstanding patents on > technologies included in the MSBuild engine (core platform stuff). Forgive me, but this sounds a little scary to me. In particular as I'm German and don't know too much about US patent law. I understand that you cannot go into details, but I assume that "core platform stuff" is just that, core .NET stuff. If Microsoft was going to patent things like the dependency checking inside the MSBuild execution engine or how tasks get registered, instantiated, configured from XML and all that, this would certainly affect NAnt and Ant - although I'm sure that whatever NAnt or Ant do would easily be considered prior art here. I want to thank you for being here, Alex. Cheers Stefan -- http://stefanbodewig.blogger.de/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
