On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 02:51 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > See http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono for details. > > That article is a load of crap, a package of half truths. > > You are entitled to your opinion, but I think you're wrong. > I invite people to read it and judge for themselves. > > Some of the points in the article -- not all -- deal with situations > that may or may not occur, but that doesn't make them invalid or > irrelevant. To judge the effects of a patent promise like this one, > it is necessary to consider the possible situations that might arise. > > Implementing a free platform for C# is a good thing to do. If you > > would like to promote the use of C# itself, how about explaining to > > Novell and Microsoft that they need to fully implement said protection > > in an ironclad way for all the usual C# libraries. > > > > I spend a considerable amount of time doing this. It has taken time, > and there would be no Community Promise, and there would be no > Silverlight agreement (the one that has no special Novell provisions) > without this work. > > Thank you for working on it, and I hope you eventually succeed. > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Richard, This discussion is not contributing to the original point of this email thread - the strategic goals for GNOME. Thank you. Paul _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
