On Tuesday 07 November 2006 17:57, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Hello,
At a Novell conference today the advised reading this and if any question post them via the links on the page.
One question to the SUSE community: <quote> What does this mean for Mono and its inclusion in non-SUSE distributions? Does Mono infringe Microsoft patents? We maintain that Mono does not infringe any Microsoft patents. This agreement does not impact the rights and abilities of other distributions to bundle and ship Mono. </quote> This seems like a silly question to ask (and answer). IIRC, mono is based on the ECMA standards C# and the Common Language Runtime. Hence, there should be no patent issues to speak of. (This in addition to the fact that software cannot be patented, which the US PTO seems to have forgotten.) It was interesting reading and very full of marketing-speak. I had a good laugh (or cry) at the ODF/OOXML portion. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com