Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 21st Jan 2004 07:56 UTC
Unix was originally all about not being... Multics. If Mono is to follow a similar nomenclature (just for the kicks), we have to talk about Mono's upcoming 'monopolization' and 'monarchy' in the next generation of the Unix programming land. Your see, if everything goes well, in 2 to 3 years most new Gnome user/desktop applications will be written --hopefully-- in Mono and C#. Update: Miguel deIcaza replies.
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Actually, you can sit on patents as long as you like under US law.
See the GIF issue. =
As it is, everything I've seen points to MS being OK with Mono as long as it's free, meaning it could go after the distros that include it. See this message linked in the Mono FAQ:
https://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html
It's the main thing keeping me away from GTK#. If that were cleared up and this vetted and shown to be legal and Free software, I'd probably use it in addition to my Python work, as I don't like trusting C code any more then I have to.