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MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

Posted Mar 10, 2008 0:08 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld) by beoba
Parent article: MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal (LinuxWorld)

It will never really be safe to use.  And it's not a matter of legality and the subtleties of
patent law.  I wrote about this earlier over on OSNews:

http://www.osnews.com/thread?303915

Mono is great as a "we can run .Net apps" safety net.  But it will never be safe for
infrastructure.


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