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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie Lies About/Twists "Cross-platform" to Hijack Web
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From: Hadron <hadronqu...@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft's Scott Guthrie Lies About/Twists "Cross-platform" to Hijack Web
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:17:07 +0100
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Erik Funkenbusch <e...@despam-funkenbusch.com> writes:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:51:57 -0500, Linonut wrote:
>
>> * Miguel de Icaza peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>>>
>>>> 1) ... What proportion of Mono uses Microsoft's patented technology,
>>>> including that which is is part of the ECMA specifications?
>>>
>>> Read our policy on patents (Microsoft or otherwise):
>>>
>>> http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing
>>>
>>> Which is not different than any other open source project.
>>
>> It sure as hell is different:
>>
>> Both the Mono runtime and the Mono C# Compiler are also available
>> under a proprietary license for those who can not use the LGPL and
>> the GPL in their code.
>>
>> For licensing details, contact mono-licens...@novell.com
>> (mailto:mono-licens...@novell.com)
>
> How is that different from QT, MySQL, or any of host of other open source
> applications that offer proprietary licenses as well?
You don't think for one minute that Liarnut actually read or understood
anything there do you? He's just posturing and showing off in his new
role as Roy's lapdog following the departure of Lapdog Colly.
>
>>> (b) whether its good for Linux to be a second class citizen on the web
>>> when you are unable to watch content.
>>
>> You need to rephrase it. The question is whether it is good to convert
>> citizens into second-class citizens on the web by virtue of restricting
>> their access to content to a format promulgated by a large, powerful,
>> and dominant corporation, requiring the relatively expensive purchase of
>> a proprietary (and unlicensed for production by any other vendor)
>> operating system.
>
> You don't need to purchase anything to use Silverlight on Linux, either to
> create or view using Mono.
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