[Mono-list] A rather political question...

[Ben Maurer]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:51, M Black wrote:
> I am curious as to the point of view of Mono developers on the following:
Please note I am speaking as a developer, not as a voice for the
project. Also, note I am not a lawyer.

> 1.  What is your opinion about Microsoft's stance on their .NET patent?
I don't like it.
> 2.  What will be Mono's response if Microsoft decides to lean on Mono?
Given that Mono is now part of Novell, we have the resources to lean
back on Microsoft. Also, given that pnet is a GNU project, the FSF
lawyers would probably move quickly on Microsoft.
> 3.  What advice would you offer someone who wishes to develop a C# 
> application for open source, under the GPL, given the above?
Develop it! You are not developing an application for Mono, you are
developing a *C#* application. The idea is to make it follow good design
guidelines so that your application can run on Windows, pnet, Mono,
Rotor, *ALL* the implementations.

If what you are really asking is "is Mono here to stay; will my
application be able to run on Linux?" the answer to both questions is
"YES".

-- Ben