[Opensim-users] Microsoft issues patent promise, dispels Mono legal concerns

[Ethan Grammatikidis]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:00:20 +0000
Opensource Obscure <open at autistici.org> wrote:

> 
> At a first glance this is good news for Opensim users and 
> developers that use Linux. I'd like to hear comments, 
> especially from free-software advocates.
> 
> Microsoft issues patent promise, dispels Mono legal concerns
> from Ars Technica - http://bit.ly/BasCG or
> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/microsoft-issues-patent-promise-dispels-mono-concerns.ars

Just wondering how binding this promise is. I guess MS couldn't break it without getting themselves bad press, but there's always a possibility of a company finding itself in a tight corner & thinking maybe it's worth breaking this. I find myself wondering if some, perhaps many big businesses are designed to run as if they're in a tight corner all the time.

-- 
Ethan Grammatikidis

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