** Reply to message from Darren New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:29:56 -0700
> > Just because it is running does not mean Microsoft will not threaten their > > patented IP is in it and want you to stop using it, pay them millions, or > > just use Windows instead of your favorite other OS. Do you know for a > > fact that the mono CLR is completely free of Microsoft patented stuff? > > No. Do you know for a fact that Java is? :-) How would you possibly go > about proving such a thing? Let's see, Sun has had their JVM out and licensed it for over 10 years now. Just how many law suits has that brought them over this period of time? They have worked with the open source and open standards market for years and years and they have a definition of _open_ which every developer I know has, but is not the same definition Microsoft has. And there is this 20 year period of Microsoft screwing the world+dog every other month of the year and they have a multi-million( possibly billion ) dollar campaign going to oppose open source and open standards. Hello ISO MS-OOXML and MS Get The Facts. Do you trust Microsoft and question Sun and the recently open sourced Java JVM? You may not, as an individual be able to prove something isn't going to bite you in the ass tomorrow but you can look at what has bitten you in the ass and has bitten others in the ass for decades and see that there is a high likelihood it's going to happen again. Mono and all that Microsoft created stuff is a major threat to developers who care about having a choice in the platforms they develop for. -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
