[Opensim-dev] Mono considered harmful

[Nebadon Izumi]

personally the only wolf in sheeps clothing i see in this case is TomTom for
not aquiring permission to use software, sounds to me like they tried to
steal something that wasn't not theirs and sell it without aquiring
permission, so if Microsoft is a wolf in sheeps clothing for protecting is
own creations, then I guess thats just how things are, personally I dont see
anything that microsoft did wrong or is even un-ethical in this situation,
quite the opposite, in my eyes, TomTom were the one with questionable
ethics, you cant just steal from microsoft because everyone hates them and
they are a huge entity, if we start using these kind of tactics successfully
againts large heartless corporations where does it end? the answer is it
wouldnt if microsoft lost this case it would be open game on all protected
code, and while i love and am a huge promoter of open source, I am a bigger
fan of protecting the laws of the land, and as much as everyone would love
to see microsoft burn, in this case the law was on their side and thats just
the facts, if you are to survive in the open source world you have to thick
skin and expect the companies that your "Open" software is competing with
their Retail software that keeps their employees paid to be quite defensive
when you intrude on their creations.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:51 AM, James Stallings II <
james.stallings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope :) not saying that at all; just saying beware of wolves dressed like
> sheep.
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Nebadon Izumi <nebadon2025 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> are you trying to say that C# is not a wise choice because TomTom broke
>> copyright and patent laws and Microsoft called them out on it?  and why on
>> earth would a company using Linux Kernel select a copy written Microsoft
>> creation for their choice of file system when there are tons of free
>> alternatives? personally i think TomTom is 100% at fault for thier own
>> choices, and this really has nothing to do with C# or this project at all,
>> seems more likely to me this is just an attempt to start a flame war over
>> microsoft since this has absolutly nothing to do with technological
>> decisions.
>>
>> Nebadon
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What was the original reason for the decision to pick .Net/C#/Mono?
>>>
>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090401152339514
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