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De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the starting-with-the-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot because of the constant threat of patent infringement that it has cast on the system, Novell vice-president and Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza is quoted as telling the website Software Development Times recently."

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  1. O rly. by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "He also claimed that Facebook, Google, Ruby on Rails and Wikipedia could have been built using .NET."

    Wikipedia? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Really, no.

    (Although the WMF Lucene search implementation was done in C# on Mono for a while, when Java wasn't yet sufficiently free software. It ran at half the speed of the Java version.)

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  2. Re:Finally by sigmoid_balance · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Stallman said the same thing, de Icaza called him a fanatic. Well, most voices on /. called him the same thing. He was right then like he was right with his movement from the start. You can't have half-measures.

  3. Re:Wah wah wah by miguel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are mixing two different things.

    Microsoft claims that they have patents had a chilling effect on Mono adoption.

    That does not mean that I do not stand 100% by our position in the Mono project regarding patents. To begin with, we think it is a bullshit argument, since everything you use is infringing on someone else's patents (Microsoft included).

    Microsoft like any other corporation will do a cost/benefit analysis of suing someone over patents. So far the kernel has been a juicier target than Mono has.