Unfortunately, MS have said they will use patents on technology in that
area to stop open source/Free versions of .NET being produced.
Take a look at http://scripting.com/ today for more details. Read back
the last few days and you'll see some disturbing quotes from Craig
Mundie..
"Brian Behlendorf: "I agree we can work with Microsoft, but sometimes
they put terms on the relationships that just make that impossible. I
was glad I was able to get Mundie to state 'of course!' when I asked if
they had patents they planned to enforce against independent
implementors of .Net and Hailstorm."
Donncha.
Derek Noonan wrote:
>> Anyone who thought that .NET was going to stay on the Microsoft platform was
> simply wrong. Microsoft submitted .NET to ECMA (http://www.ecma.ch/) in the
> hope that other vendors would implement it.
>> You'll soon find a version of the .NET Framework for the Linux platform
> courtesy of several members of the open source project. The fact that
> Microsoft wants little to do with open source (but is being forced into it
> bit by bit by developers) lends irony to the entire project.
>> You can read more about this particular development at
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20270.html.
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