Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Jul 2009 15:54 UTC, submitted by Brandon L
As you would have guessed, the Mono debate is long from over. Two weeks ago, Microsoft extended its legally binding and perpetual community promise to cover the C# and CLI ECMA standards, which was generally seen as a good thing for Linux-centric fans of the C# language as well as for the Mono project. The FSF has responded now, and it isn't too impressed with Microsoft's move.
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RE: Wouldn't that be nice..
by KermitTheFragger on Mon 20th Jul 2009 18:06
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"If Microsoft genuinely wants to reassure free software users that it does not intend to sue them for using Mono, it should grant the public an irrevocable patent license for all of its patents that Mono actually exercises."
This would be quite the FSF coup, since Mono could then implement anything in the world, and it would force MS to give up any patents it has.
Mono.FAT? There goes those patents.
Somehow I doubt this is something MS, or any other company in the world, will do.