Star C#, CLI Under Community Promise, Mono Split in Half
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Jul 2009 08:51 UTC, submitted by PLan
Mono Project We've already seen some heavy discussion on Mono and C# here on OSNews the past few weeks, as it became clear the patent situation regarding the ECMA parts of Mono was anything but faith inspiring. This issue seems to be resolved now: Microsoft has made a legally binding promise not to sue anyone who uses or distributes implementations of said ECMA standards. Following this news, Mono will be split in two; the ECMA standard parts, and the rest.
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RE[7]: Comment by kaiwai
by jpobst on Tue 7th Jul 2009 16:03 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Comment by kaiwai"
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Did you read the article? the promise only covers what is standardised under the ECMA standard - the interesting parts like gdiplus, winforms, asp.net and so forth are excluded - so the threat still stands for those banking on mono to turn their winforms application into a multiplatform solution without needing to do extensive re-coding.


Yep, I read the article, however the article has nothing to do with your comment or my response. You were saying that Sun hasn't sued anyone over Java and that Apple hasn't sued anyone over OpenStep, and then insinuated that somehow that made them different than Microsoft. I then pointed out to you that Microsoft has also not sued anyone over Mono.

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