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Can Recent MS Patents Affect Mono and DotGNU?

Posted by Cliff on from the do-you-trust-Redmond dept.

5p1urge asks: "I really love the Mono and DotGNU projects. As someone who's worked in Java for for over 5 years, I welcome C# and it's buddies to the OpenSource world. However, here's question: as far as I can tell, only the C# spec and System.* assemblies were submitted to ECMA and therefore made officially public. What happens when MS decides that, Linux -is- going to steal valuable income-generating business, and therefore it should use it's newly acquired patents to sue? I'd appreciate comments from IT lawyers / solicitors and individuals with experience in this area, as well as from the wider community. I'm asking this question because I want to code in mono / DotGnu but I'm cautious because I wonder if MS can take it away from us?"

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  1. P.S. by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    P.S. .NET can't be compared to other languages anyway because you can use any language in it. That's one of .NET's features.

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    "Sufferin' succotash."
  2. Re:Nope by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    retard. MS released rotor a year or 2 ago, which is .Net (C# and javascript) for *BSD.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. What Total Bullsh*t by bratmobile · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, Microsoft submits C#, the CLR, and the System.* assemblies to the ECMA standardizations process. (Far, far more than Sun has EVER done with Java.)

    And Slashdot has any reason to complain? Boo fucking hoo that Microsoft didn't submit EVERY LINE OF CODE THEY HAVE EVER WRITTEN to ECMA.

    The attitude of the original poster is that of a whiner. Microsoft gives you something for basically free (a decent spec for a decent language/runtime), and you WHINE that they didn't give you more.

    Boo fucking hoo. Grow up.