__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 24 March 2007 14:13 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Penguins on the racetrack
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| On Friday, the first race in the Race to Linux 2.0 began. The goal
>>| is to get an application developed with Visual Studio for ASP.NET
>>| 2.0 ported to Linux.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Now that Mono does not have to fear lawsuits from Microsoft, it can
>>| overcome the barriers that lawyers set up and programmers fear in many
>>| market segments.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87273/from/rss09
>>
>> Again, they try to brag about some sort of legal 'purity'.
>
> I've seen some crap written about this deal, but this article is
> beyond the pail. "Now that mono does not have to fear lawsuits from
> Microsoft"??? Mono is software, you can't take software to court.
> Well, you can, but you can't take legal action against it.
>
> Worse, the /real deal/ with Microsoft was something between Novell and
> Microsoft, and something to do with customers. So far as I know, there
> was nothing related to Novell themselves, and certainly nothing about
> other developers, so if there really were a legal threat, it is still
> very much there, and anyone who thought it was a problem before, should
> still think it is now.
>
> Of course, as Microsoft have never actually identified what this threat
> might be, then one can, equally, write the whole thing off as a load of
> monkey nuts. Presumably, some people out there are sufficiently naive
> or misinformed that they take this seriously, but I don't personally
> know them.
Indeed. All of this was noted in that Novell site of ours, as well as Groklaw
News Picks. Novell is digging a deeper hole and one day it will fall right
into that hole (the effect of that part of the deal 'expires' after 5
years). In the mean time, it is important to warn developers that Mono is a
grey area, according to Novell themselves. Red Hat has been avoiding it like
the plague, but some Ubuntu users inhale it without hesitation. I wonder if
Miguel reads this. I would love to see his reaction (he posted in COLA
before). As far as I can see, no defence of his would be convincing.
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