Python vs .Net (

[Serdar Kilic]

It would be quite difficult to "sue MONO" as they are building not from
Microsoft specifications but specifications from ECMA (and soon to be ISO
standards as well).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/
http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-335.htm (Common Language Infrastructure)
http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-334.htm (C# Language)

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 Serdar K. | http://www.kilic.net/

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>[mailto:python-list-admin at python.org] On Behalf Of Lulu of the 
>Lotus-Eaters
>Sent: Wednesday, 8 January 2003 5:20 AM
>To: Pythonistas
>Subject: Re: Python vs .Net (
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>"Etienne Charland" <mystery at golden.net> wrote previously:
>|Some work is done to make .NET cross-platform: MONO www.go-mono.com
>
>I do hope everyone knows that it is not a question of IF, but 
>WHEN, Microsoft will decide to sue MONO out of existence.
>
>The whole thing smells of usual MS dirty tricks... they have 
>released just enough of API details to allow Ximian to waste 
>time on implementing MONO.  But MS has kept many parts of the 
>API as trade-secrets, and has wrapped much of the documented 
>API in patents.
>
>MS's goal here is to maintain an official face that ".NET" is 
>cross-platform and open.  But as soon as MONO has any success 
>at all, MS
>*will* pour millions of dollars into lawyers to claim patent 
>violations in MONO (and maybe trademark, copyright, 
>trade-secret) issues.  Those lawyers *will* get restraining 
>orders against the distribution of MONO, effectively killing 
>the project.  Of course semi-underground copies of MONO will 
>still exist, but not any effective development project; and if 
>Ximian isn't outright bankrupted, they might eventually win in 
>court, many years after the APIs have gone somewhere else altogether.
>
>Yours, Lulu (a soothsayer)...
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