[Opensim-dev] Mono considered harmful

[James Stallings II]

Thanks Adam, that actually alleviates my concerns completely :D
Chhers
James

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au> wrote:

> Since this discussion is raised every 6 months without fail, I present:
>
> http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2008/08/opensim-c-standards-patents-and-you/
>
> Written the last time this came up.
>
> Short answer:
> * ECMA standardisation forbids MS from suing implementers.
> * C# and its standard library are ECMA standards.
>
>
> Adam
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> > bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Mike Dickson
> > Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 9:00 AM
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Mono considered harmful
> >
> > 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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