Linked by David Adams on Fri 12th Jun 2009 14:55 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
A Mono developer responds to a request for "a calm presentation of why Mono is desirable, why it is not a threat, and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default" answering the three questions individually, then attempting to address general anti-Mono sentiment.
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"And I'm worried about patents or legal threats regarding Mono, at all. There are many more elements in Linux distros that have far greater potential legal threat than Mono."
I'm not so sure. To quote another article on the matter:
"Of course, there are potentially thousands of patent issues affecting free software and we cannot run scared. Once we know about particular patent infringements in free software, they can be resolved. But there’s a difference between implementing software which might turn out to infringe on some patents and deliberately writing free software using a proprietary framework."
Other pieces of the linux stack may or may not infringe. They are unknowns. On the other hand, Mono is an implementation of a *known* proprietary technology. The odds of Mono being a problem are far greater than some vague unknown "other element."