[Opensim-dev] Mono considered harmful

[James Stallings II]

Yeah as I look at the original message, I see it is in -dev list, and it
definitely does not belong here.
Cheers!
James


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson at hp.com> wrote:

> The TomTom thing is far more complex than it might seem and a good
> example of how companies use patents these days.  I wouldn't be as quick
> to claim TomTom is the only one at fault here, there was a counter-suit
> and we don't have details on how it was settled.
>
> IMO,there's essentially zero risk to OpenSim.  Even if Mono gets
> attacked for patent infringement (which is extremely unlikely IMO, I
> won't go into details) the worst case scenarios is that you'd not be
> able to run it on Linux using Mono. If you're inclined towards floating
> anxiety then this is something to worry about. Otherwise from an OpenSim
> perspective there are bigger fish to fry. Like getting to 1.0...
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:58 +0000, Nebadon Izumi wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
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