On 11/13/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you considered the implications of Mono being owned by Novell and Novell having entered into an "arrangement" with Microsoft. Perhaps Mono is not as unencumbered as you might like to think.
According to various Novell hacker blogs, the Microsoft deal has nothing to do with Mono. The Mono project has claimed that Microsoft promised not to exercise any patent against core C#/.Net functionality a couple of years ago. Against ADO.Net and ASP.Net is another story - hence the need for gtk-sharp et al. There are supposedly patents against Java and even C++ - the fact is, avoiding patents is very difficult when using any software technology or technique invented in the last 20 years. So in that way, C# is no less encumbered than Java. The C# patent threat is just FUD - of course, IANAL - so cavet emptor :-) Ciao, Michael... -- Michael Davies "Do what you think is interesting, do somthing that [EMAIL PROTECTED] you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise http://michaeldavies.org you won't do it well anyway." -- Brian Kernighan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
