On 29/05/10 13:21, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
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.
OK. Although I note there were several points raised in the body that appear
valid (ie awaken vague memories from Groklaw over the years and make me wonder
how they apply to MeeGo), and remain unaddressed. I don't have the background to
refute these points.
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).
Again, thanks; that provides some google food.
Did you intend that answer to invalidate all the other points raised? (again,
just asking for clarity)
Thirdly, avoiding a piece of software out of fear of it possibly
infringing a patent is silly
Agreed.
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.
Agreed - are any of them in MeeGo?
Is liblame in MeeGo? I understand it's not allowed on the Suse OBS due to
"possibly infringing a patent"? Is that why it's not in MeeGo?
Hope that clears things up,
It is certainly a lot more informative and I hope we can use it to clarify how
these kinds of issues are addressed in future.
David
--
"Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
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