Finding out what the patents are

Finding out what the patents are

Posted Jul 17, 2009 14:41 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: The FSF warns (again) against Mono

The language was developed inside Microsoft, so it's likely they have many patents to cover different aspects of its implementation.

I suppose it is likely; one way to settle this question would be for Novell or someone else to find out which patents Microsoft holds that are likely to apply. Because this just means reading patents held by one company, it would be much cheaper than a full patent search. Perhaps then they could ask Microsoft to acknowledge that some of them are 'Necessary' for a C# implementation, and thus definitely covered by their no-sue promise.

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