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Microsoft's Scott Guthrie Lies About/Twists "Cross-platform" to Hijack Web
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From: Erik Funkenbusch <e...@despam-funkenbusch.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft's Scott Guthrie Lies About/Twists "Cross-platform" to Hijack Web
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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?
>> (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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