Can Recent MS Patents Affect Mono and DotGNU?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday September 14, 2003 @12:25PM 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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I don't know what would happen, by Treeluvinhippy · 2003-09-14 12:39 · Score: 4, Funny

but I sure as hell wouldn't be giving them ideas.

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Anyone else do that? by AEton · 2003-09-14 12:49 · Score: 4, Funny

I welcome C# and it's buddies to the OpenSource world.

looked suspiciously like "I for one welcome our new C# overlords." the first and second times I read it.

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