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.Net On Android Is Safe, Says Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "With Oracle suing Google over 'unofficial' support for Java in Android, Microsoft has come out and said it has no intention of taking action against the Mono implementation of C# on the Linux-based mobile OS. That's good news for Novell, which is in the final stages of preparing MonoDroid for release. Miguel de Icaza is not concerned about legal challenges by Microsoft over .Net implementations, and even recommends that Google switch from using Java. However, Microsoft's Community Promise has been criticized by the Free Software Foundation for not going far enough to protect open source implementations from patent litigation, which is at the heart of the Oracle-Google case."
Is that why they want to repeal the 14th Amendment?
Except that Mono is *also* under the GPL. No, it's not about ideology, it's simply some slashdotters have a vendetta against Microsoft that they'll follow even against common sense.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
Whats your point exactly?
Okays, so its not free, you have to pay them for the effort to put into it like you have to pay the farmers you get your food from.
Like wise, they aren't giving you the original method to their madness so you can't recreate it ... just like a farmer doesn't give you their process either when you eat a potato.
So being that pretty much EVERYTHING in the world works this way, what exactly are you saying? You treat software different than the way you do everything else in your life, and we're supposed to be impressed because you're a self righteous idiot that practically defines the word hypocrite?
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Why? Because they benefit from the work they did making it?
OMG SOMEONE IS MAKING MONEY THAT SHIT MUST END NOW!!@$!@$ GPL4LIFE!@$!@$
Do you realize how stupid you make yourself look?
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
and Android is already one of the most popular phone operating systems
Americans, huhu, you get it? You aint the world.
Android vs iOS seems neat.
Symbian only has 2% in the US but 40+% worldwide, so you may notice that this little proxy battle isnt concerning all to many people outside the US.
But well, Intel is american as well, so you might eventually get decent linux smartphones in the long run.
Sorry, but the US seems to be applying for third world nation status in mobile tech.
Time to burn some karma i guess.