> And for as much threatening as Microsoft does around IP, they're not > particularly active in litigating on it.
> When the issue is about patent law, saying "intellectual property" > instead of "patents" only tends to confuse the issue, by spuriously > extending it to copyrights, trademarks, and other totally different > laws. I actually meant both patents and copyrights, so I think my characterization was accurate. If you mean patents and copyrights, please say "patents and copyrights". Saying "intellectual property" takes in a dozen other laws (such as trademark law) that don't relate to the issue, so it can turn accurate statements into inaccurate ones. However, even saying "patents and copyrights" seems like a distraction from the issue at hand. Patents are relevant to the use of Mono and C#, but copyrights are not. The fact that Microsoft has not yed sued us over these patents might be relevant -- though I've heard that Microsoft is privately threatening companies that run free software and demanding they pay. If Microsoft also has not sued in some case concerning copyright, that case must be very different from this one, and I don't think it relevant to this discussion. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list