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Attachmate Fires Mono Developers

Posted by timothy on from the and-there-there-were-none dept.

darthcamaro writes "Love it or hate it, Novell's open source Mono project has inspired a lot of debate over the last 7 years. Mono brings .NET to Linux, with some interesting patent connections. The project is now at a crossroads, with news today that Attachmate had laid off the US based development team for Mono."

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  1. Re:Good. by rzei · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last I checked MONO was aiming to deliver .NET to Linux. .NET (platform) patents scare people, not patents regarding the language specification. I guess you can patent anything in USA and sue on ever more in Texas, but I do not think that the language specification contains anything patentable.

    Have you read the patent statement? It says:

    Microsoft Corporation will grant, [..] licenses on commericially reasonable terms and conditions, for its patent(s), [...] for the implementation of the Ecma Standard.

    So, until you have Microsoft releasing GPL (w/ classpath or whatever assemblies you use on .NET exception) or LGPL code that compiles under Linux you really shouldn't be using it.

  2. Re:Good. by Dahamma · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) Do your research:

    http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/osspatentpledge.mspx
    http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/IPLicensing/customercovenant/msnovellcollab/patent_agreement.aspx

    2) Stop plagarizing Richard Stallman's quotes without attribution:

    http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

  3. Re:Good. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

    He is not. C# has versions, and so does .NET. As well, C# has an Ecma standard, and so does .NET (CLI) - they are two separate documents.

    He is correct in that the most recent standardized (by Ecma and ISO) versions of both C# and CLI are 2.0.

  4. Re:Good. by aztracker1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, you could read the legally binding community promise... Or the projects MS has released under OSS licences (MVC, DLR, etc). I'm guessing you've stripped out the FAT32 support, and Samba from your linux builds too then?

    --
    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
  5. Re:C# *and* core libraries by MareLooke · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FSFs stance, but since the FSF are just anti MS, Stallman following loonies (right?), here's Groklaw's stance. I'm sure you can find more with your friend.

    But don't let the facts presented by people who understand the applicable law and the related issues stop your fanboyism.