[Opensim-dev] Mono considered harmful

[Mike Dickson]

Sigh...

Then go pick some other platform to work on. OpenSim seems pretty
solidly committed to the C#/Mono choice it made when it was started.

And yes, of course my argument is speculation.  Unless you have a
crystal ball and know for certain you're going to get sued how can it be
anything but that.

Companies use patents for leverage all the time.  In this day and age
that's probably their highest value (fwiw, I personally don't believe
software patents are a good thing, or even sensible, copyright law seems
more appropriate to me).

Seriously, all I was saying is this is a storm in a teacup. It shouldn't
stop useful work from getting done.  Or cloud the excellent work that's
been done to date.

Mike

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:49 +0000, Nebadon Izumi wrote:
> your argument is 100% speculation and not based in any facts sorry to
> say, you can assume all you like, doesnt make what your saying true.
> 
> Neb
> 
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>         On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Mike Dickson wrote:
>         
>         > 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
>         
>         
>         So you're saying the worst case (which is I think is arguably
>         likely, actually) is that OpenSim only runs on proprietary
>         systems.
>         OpenSim becoming Windows-only, eventually.
>         
>         > anxiety then this is something to worry about. Otherwise
>         from an OpenSim
>         > perspective there are bigger fish to fry. Like getting to
>         1.0...
>         
>         
>         Becoming ghetto and then long-term insignificant is less
>         important
>         than getting 1.0 out of the door. Mmmh, okay. If you say so.
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