Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.
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What I fear is that .NET is encumbered. Although Microsoft may let us get away with it now, sometime in the future there will probably be a court battle, and the winner is up for grabs. Worst-case scenario, the big Linux distros will have to either pay Microsoft royalties, or rewrite a bunch of applications from scratch (because Mono will have become so prevalent).
Don't get me wrong, the technology's great. It's the fuzziness of Microsoft's legal standing that gets me.