Comments: 3 +- Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI under Community Prom-> on Monday July 06, @08:36PM FishWithAHammer
It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions. You do not need to sign a license agreement, or otherwise communicate to Microsoft how you will implement the specifications.
... Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.
This clears the way for Mono to be fully integrated into GNOME, and Boycott Novell can go back to crying in their corner."
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Irony of blog name (Score:1)
Port 25 = SMTP = the place where some of the worst garbage of the Internet is spewed out (SPAM)
It's still a trap... (Score:2)
Don't know how, don't know when, but it is a trap.
Maybe by only "releasing" older versions under the Community Promise, maybe by have sneaky weasel words in the fine print... But you can be darned sure that this isn't MSFT being altruistic.
A great step forward (Score:2)
This actually makes Mono one of the safer technologies for Linux RAD development, since, unlike many libraries derived or built from commercial entities, this one has a written statement from its authors that it's safe from patent litigation from Microsoft. I'm looking forward to developing on Mono under Linux. This only enhances the amount of choice available for Linux development and creates greater competition among the different platform providers.
And yes, Microsoft is getting something out of this: if