[Mono-list] $MS and patents?

[Lloyd Dupont]

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On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 06:55 PM, Faine, Mark wrote:

Another major area of concern for Microsoft is its .Net initiative.

Microsoft plans to fiercely protect its intellectual property rights in 
the face of open source projects designed to emulate .Net. The most 
notable is the Mono project led by Ximian that is attempting to port the 
.Net framework to Linux.

Experts say Microsoft won't let any .Net Linux projects get past the 
test stage.
 From: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0831mslinuxw.html

i personally do believe that it is pure intimidation.
what could they legally do against one's other program ?
the fact is that its program as same interface but it is not the first 
time one write a library with same interface as other, no ?

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On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 06:55 PM, Faine, Mark wrote:


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i personally do believe that it is pure intimidation.

what could they legally do against one's other program ?

the fact is that its program as same interface but it is not the first
time one write a library with same interface as other, no ?=

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