[Mono-list] Ask Microsoft: Mono support

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:29:00 -0400


Hello,

> Nobody is mentioning the part where Ms. Morgan says: "Microsoft [has
>  not] licensed anything to Novell/Ximian". I read the position

That is correct, we have not licensed the code from them.  If we were to
license their code, we would not be likely to have an open source
implementation.

In the same way that Samba does not license the Microsoft source code,
they built one from scratch.