Comments on: Gnome goes Mono and jumps into the Patent Trap

By: Gnome did not go Mono « Tonnerre Lombard

Gnome did not go Mono « Tonnerre Lombard — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:50:21 +0000

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By: Mono - Discussion With a Developer | Ubuntu Linux Help

Mono - Discussion With a Developer | Ubuntu Linux Help — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:50:56 +0000

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By: tonnerre

tonnerre — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:09:38 +0000

Re: Oops. 2004 story

Well, the recentness of the basic decision is greatly exaggerated, I guess I should reformulate that paragraph. Recent events have pointed out why and where things are going in that respect.
Due to these events I wanted to re-attract attention to that part of the issue.

By: ciaran

ciaran — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:05:35 +0000

Oops. 2004 story

That news article is from January 2004, so I guess there hasn’t actually been any recent decision?

By: ciaran

ciaran — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:42:43 +0000

The patent pledge

De Icaza’s replied by saying they will only use the parts of Mono that are described in the ECMA standard and which are thereby covered by a patent pledge from Microsoft.

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=5746&offset=75&rows=90#190589

From working on the OOXML issue, I know that Microsoft’s patent pledges are usually uninspiring. Do you know of a critique I could link to about problems with their patent pledge for ECMA/Mono?

(BTW, good blog entry, and the life=infringement one too.)