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It would also go a long way to assuage people that MS wasn't about to pull the rug out from under Mono with a patent suit. If MS was a shareholder in a company
by mbreese 16y ago
It would also go a long way to assuage people that MS wasn't about to pull the rug out from under Mono with a patent suit. If MS was a shareholder in a company that commercializes Mono, it would be tougher (but not impossible) for them to sue.
- bullseye 16y agoMicrosoft applied the "Community Promise" to the ECMA C# and CLI standards a couple of years ago. http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx
- tytso 16y agoFor C# and the core language, yes. But not anything higher on the .NET stack. Novell had some patents that was able to hold Microsoft at bay. But since Novell sold off their patent portfolio, who knows? Personally, I wouldn't touch Mono would a ten foot pole, but that's just me....
- thedeuce 16y agoWell of course since you work for Google, I wouldn't expect any other answer ;p
- azakai 16y ago> It would also go a long way to assuage people that MS wasn't about to pull the rug out from under Mono with a patent suit. If MS was a shareholder in a company that commercializes Mono, it would be tougher (but not impossible) for them to sue. For exactly this reason, I don't expect to see this happen.