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[Gene Heskett]

On Friday, September 17, 2010 09:10:25 am Lothan did opine:

> What's the connection between Mono and Larry Ellison or are you
> confusing Mono with Java?
> 
My bad, I'm off kilter with what feels like a strep throat I will take to 
the sawbones this morning.  Mono is of course the Novell/SuSe/OSS answer to 
.NET, an M$ thing.  The rest of the comment is still valid.  For the same 
reason.  I've been linux since 1998 here.

> From: gene heskett
> 
> And what is its patent status?  The possibility that one could waste a
> year working on a project in mono, only to have Larry Ellison decide to
> sue you for patent infringement, is a possibility that is not
> 'vanishingly small'.
> 
> For no other reason, I wouldn't touch mono with a 50 foot cat5 cable.
> 
> 
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