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Getting Shit Done trumps all things. The reality as well is that the majority of the .Net platform (with the exception of the Standard Libraries, I believe) ar
by rit 15y ago
Getting Shit Done trumps all things. The reality as well is that the majority of the .Net platform (with the exception of the Standard Libraries, I believe) are open ECMA Standards (See among others, #335).
- Fice 15y agoThe reality is that .NET is a very probable patent trap for the FOSS community and Microsoft is trying hard to make us dependent on it. Unlike .NET, Java has a free implementation (OpenJDK) and any code derived from OpenJDK is granted Java patents. Apache is a different story as they are developing a Java implementation under permissive license, which means that Apache code could be used in non-free software (including .NET), that would make Java vulnerable to the "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" strategy. That is what Apache is paid for by Microsoft. So my point is that supporting .NET is bad for the ideals of the free software community, yet it is good for pragmatic reasons as it could bring more users. And I have a strong impression that today pragmatism is favored over principle by the community, the decline of copyleft is also a sign of that.
- macca321 15y agoSo is it that you don't buy the Community Promise, or that you don't know about it? http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html
- Fice 15y agoFSF: Microsoft's Empty Promise (http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono)
- rit 15y agoThere are pretty strong guidelines with regards to patents for any technology you turn over to an ECMA standard which basically removes your ability to patent troll by legal license.