Open source GPL edition aside, open source community health aside, technical suitability aside, and Xamian busiess model aside, what about legal suitability for commercial Mono-based ISVs, and the customers of their products?
Previously, Novell was an OIN member, and had some agreements with Microsoft in some areas (for some non-ECMA components). Now, Attachmate owns things, Xamian isn't an OIN member [in case that matters], and it seems ISVs may now be more vulnerable to Microsoft lawyers. What about current legal protection, now that Xamian isn't benefiting from other non-Mono Novell IP/lawyers? Are the previous agreements that Microsoft made with Novell w/r/t Mono being reissued with Xamian? Does Attachmate own Mono, or does Xamian? Is Xamian able to renew the custom licenses to Mono, so downstream ISVs don't have to revert to GPL for their products? I have some startup friends that look at recent Attachmate activity as a reason to abandon .NET to other FOSS solutions. Any positive news on this, please? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
