[Mono-list] Patent issue

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see today's slashdot:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/10/0138245


Microsoft's CEOs have made it "patently" clear
(http://swpat.ffii.org/players/microsoft/index.en.html)[ffii.org] that
they intend to restrict competing .Net implementations by cultivating
Microsoft's patents, such as United States Patent Application
#20020059425
"Distributed computing services platform" [uspto.gov] [uspto.gov] which
covers the design and inter-operation of .NET based implementations.

From
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=47421&cid=4852001