Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:56 UTC
Some interesting bits of his blog entry in which De Icaza replies to emails he has received concerning the Novell-Microsoft deal: "I do not know of any patents which Mono infringes. (...) Although I did not take part of the actual negotiations, and was only told about this deal less than a week before the announcement, I had been calling for a long time for a collaboration between Microsoft and Open Source and Microsoft and Novell. (...) Similar deals have been done in the past, in 1997 Microsoft signed a similar deal with Apple, and Apple used that agreement and the incoming monies to turn the company around. Sun signed a similar agreement with Microsoft in 2004, which at the time I realized enabled Sun to ship Mono on Solaris (which we already supported at that time)."
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RE[3]: No Single Person Has Done More Damage To Linux
by somebody on Sun 5th Nov 2006 01:49
in reply to "RE[2]: No Single Person Has Done More Damage To Linux"
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Mono certainly does not predate the efforts to create free implementations of the JVM and class libraries. The "languages" in .NET are not "GPL," not that that makes a great deal of sense anyway.
Since your complete answer didn't made any sense at all, I feel the need to respond.
1. Mono development was serious from the start. Look at where it gotten in so short time. While Java stack predates Mono for a long time, development wasn't going anywhere. It only became serious in last year or two. Or how do you explain, mono got ahead of free Java so quickly? I was waiting for free Java to get usable for a long time.
2. I said "language or platform". Mono is a platform. And every language has to have compiler.
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2006-01-01
Mono certainly does not predate the efforts to create free implementations of the JVM and class libraries. The "languages" in .NET are not "GPL," not that that makes a great deal of sense anyway.