OK. I don't want to bring my deep faith in GNU to this post. ;) But Microsoft has never been kind to us, free software users. There is a very nice article about this "promise" at <http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono>.
2009/7/25 Christian Thiele <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Am 25.07.2009, 18:20 Uhr, schrieb Osama KM <[email protected]>: > >> Well, C# and .NET in general are patented so they aren't free and >> they're bad choices.[1]. >> >> [1]: <http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono> > > This post is outdated in my opinion. Microsoft reacted on it and is now > applying the Microsoft Community Promise on the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 > specs of .NET [2]. And this is not only a "promise" but legally binding. > There will be a mono version only having the core parts [3]. So I don't > see problems using mono on the toolserver. But of course I understand if > you don't want to use it ;). > > [2] > http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx > [3] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html > > Sincerely, > Christian Thiele > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > -- OsamaKhalid _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
