If you decompile though and copy/paste code parts etc. then it is reverse engineering and could potentially cause problems similar to the Linux-SCO stuff
> > http://searchvb.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid8_gci1019210,00.h > tml
"Mono is an attempt by Novell to reverse engineer parts of Microsoft's .NET Framework."
A wonderful piece of FUD slinging that.
Where's the FUD, exactly?
Parts of .NET are standardized under ECMA, which Mono implements.
Parts of .NET are *not* standardized under ECMA, which Mono also implements. (For example, System.Web.UI, System.Windows.Forms, System.Data, etc.)
How else could Mono implement the non-standardized parts of .NET than by reverse-engineering? Hell, we likely needed to reverse-engineer parts of the standardized portions, in places where the standard wasn't explicit and we needed to maintain compatibility.
Reverse engineering isn't a bad thing. It's what allows competition to exist in many fields.
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