[Mono-list] Agreement Novell - Microsoft

[Alan McGovern]

> Richard Stallman: Mono is a free implementation of Microsoft's language C#.
> Microsoft has declared itself our enemy and we know that Microsoft is
> getting
> patents on some features of C#. So I think it's dangerous to use C#, and it
> may
> be dangerous to use Mono. There's nothing wrong with Mono. Mono is a free
> implementation of a language that users use. It's good to provide free
> implementations. We should have free implementations of every language.
> But,
> depending on it is dangerous, and we better not do that.
>

So in essence he states that if it may be dangerous to implement something,
we should not implement it. If that philosophy were truly believed and
applied to every aspect of linux we'd have a hell of a lot less software and
a hell of a lot less options.

Alan.


>
>
> Alan McGovern-2 wrote:
> >
> > Nope, they don't own or directly fund the mono project.
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, 666lawyer <666lawyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Is true that Microsoft is reserved the right to abort the mono project
> at
> >> any
> >> moment?
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