On 05/29/2010 08:00 AM, David Greaves wrote: > > I don't know if you've noticed but there are PR issues that, like it > or not, we have to deal with. > > Maybe the most professional solution would be to continue to provide > polite and reasonable responses to polite and reasonable questions? > However tedious that may feel.
I didn't respond to the questions because it seems the other responses have already answered. As others have pointed out, Fedora not shipping Mono in their LiveCD has nothing to do with "legal issues" as was disingenuously insinuated in the original message. Secondly, you are right that not everyone may know this, but Microsoft placed ECMA 334 and 335 under the Microsoft Community Promise around a year ago (meaning they have given up the ability to sue over patents required to implement those specifications). Thirdly, avoiding a piece of software out of fear of it possibly infringing a patent is silly because all software (Free or not) is likely to infringe on *someone's* patents. Singling out Mono is just a disingenuous way of waging a smear campaign against Mono because they have no other way to criticize it. Every piece of software is susceptible to the very same FUD tactics. For example, you could use the very same arguments against the VP8 codec, OpenOffice (hey, it's possible it infringes Microsoft patents, right?), and a slew of others. Hope that clears things up, Jeff _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
