On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:34 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > William. Drop it, please. I read the license a week or so ago and your > concerns are valid, however, they do not affect end users in so much as > the worst MS can do is tell you to remove non-conforming libraries. I'm > not real familiar with C#, however, when I did read the license, I > interpreted it that the burden of the all or none compatibility is with > the mono project itself. If it really comes down to it, you can choose > to skip the Microsoft provided bits (libraries?). They are 'free to > use' and are 'open source' but not free as in rights, you can't modify > and redistribute. If that were a valid argument, Sun's Java never could > have been in the book either. Fortunately, that is well on the way to a > fix. Not much packages use Mono anyway, and when Mono is used, the apps are very slow. Also, M$ is thinking of taxing certan Linux distros, as I've heard. Also, most of the Mono apps have non-mono replacements, making Mono pretty useless.
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