Re: [Fedora-legal-list] http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Stanley (jonstan...@gmail.com) said: However, I don't think there's anything to worry about here. The only reason that we ship mono *at all* is that we're covered by some OIN patents on it. I'm not sure which OIN patents those are, but essentially if Microsoft wants to pick that fight,

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: Saying mono is evil while having DotGNU seems odd to me (http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/) He also recommends against using DotGNU to develop your new Free Software in (because of the same patent risk as for Mono). I'm not familiar with the JavaScript story, but if he really

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 08:49 PM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: drago01 wrote: Another don't use $LANGUAGE because its evil post from RMS. So what? His concerns are real. Depends on how you read them and whether you agree with him or not. And for most cases I