Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)

Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)

Posted Jun 24, 2005 18:46 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek) by landley
Parent article: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)

Tought C# has very appealling features, .NET was always like a big rocket moving in slow motion. Belive MS never wanted to completely bar the possibility of compliance or cloning, they just wanted restrictions.

So there probabily they dont have to have a traditional fight, they dont have to. It will be much better for them if any programm from Mono could run on .NET providing they have control to the point Mono would never surpass.NET, fragmenting and embrassing somehow OSS that way, and having an income point also...

... in short *DRM certification*...

DMCA for sure will put people on US at inprisonment peryl, and will constrain the rest of the world trough a certification programm. The only problem to MS is that it will probabily shed many of the shareware/freeware people, oppening a little windown for OSS growth.

Now i belive it is only a warning!

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