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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by deegles on Thursday September 03, 2015 @01:58PM (#10166508)
I read somewhere that Microsoft's structured the patents/licenses in the .NET ecosystem in such a way as to make that kind of lawsuit unlikely. Can anyone comment if that is true?
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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by jongalloway2 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @03:16PM (#10166956)
There are patent pledges and promises not to assert patents: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecifications

Portions of .NET are under ECMA and ISO standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure...

I think the most important part is that the new cross-platform .NET core framework, CLR, and compiler (Roslyn) are under permissive open source licenses (MIT for fx and clr, Apache 2 for Roslyn). You can see licenses and patent pledges here: https://github.com/dotnet/

Disclaimers:

1. Microsoft employee until they notice I'm hanging out on hacker news instead of replying to e-mails and "fix the glitch".

2. Not that smart and definitely not a lawyer.

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by fimoreth on Thursday September 03, 2015 @03:58PM (#10167168)
> 1. Microsoft employee until they notice I'm hanging out on hacker news instead of replying to e-mails and "fix the glitch".

Shh, they might find us.

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by mseri on Thursday September 03, 2015 @07:51PM (#10168147)
Sounds like a fun job! Do you want to hire me? ;)
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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by carussell on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:25AM (#10168941)
Not true, at least not for the CLR and the framework itself.

The crux of the Oracle v Google suit is basically, "It's Java, but it's not Java Java."

If you take a look at the MS patent promise, the way it's authored specifically allows for the very same kind of suit.

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/PATENTS.TXT

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Re:MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core by carussell on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:05PM (#10172869)
Somebody didn't like this comment. Please explain.
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