[Mono-list] any comments out there about this article

[Bob Salita]

We need a learned 2nd opinion here.

What happens if a US patent, embodied in French software, is used in the US? 
Can't the offending French software be enjoined, then seized?

Bob.

>On the patent side, one VERY easy solution would be to create a non profit
>organization handling the development of the mono project, where Ximian
>becomes one of the contributors, in France or another country where 
>software
>patents are not recognized nor legal. And badaboom, you've got an open
>source library available for anyone, and not covered by any patent.
>
>Sebastien Lambla
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]On
>Behalf Of Nathan Torkington
>Sent: mercredi 11 juillet 2001 12:20
>To: Brian Mastenbrook
>Cc: mono-list@ximian.com
>Subject: Re: [Mono-list] any comments out there about this article
>
>
>Brian Mastenbrook writes:
> > I'm not sure Microsoft would deliberately make specification-related
> > "IP" (as they call it) incompatible license-wise with the GNU
> > licenses. Remember, Microsoft has three arms: Development, PR, and
> > Legal, and them making the .NET ECMA-submitted stuff
> > non-GPL-compatible would simply be an unmitigated PR disaster.
>
>I'm not sure they would, either.  But it's a possibility.  And right
>now Microsoft is taking the hard line against the GPL and it hasn't
>been a public relations disaster, not even a mitigated one :-) I'm
>pretty sure they'd spin it as "we can't run the risk of our IP being
>contaminated by the GPL, and isn't the shared source license
>reasonable enough?"
>
>This is predicated upon their being patents on key mono-related
>technologies.  15 minutes in the patent database didn't find me any,
>but it may just be because I couldn't think of appropriate keywords to
>search for.  I think I remember Dick Hardt, Activestate CEO, saying
>that Microsoft does have patents around parts of .NET, but it'd be
>nice to have confirmation and to know precisely which patents and
>which parts.
>
>Nat
>
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