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Re:Mono 2 released by delackner on Monday October 06, 2008 @09:13AM (#324855)
Could someone please actually respond to this comment? It was downmodded, but checking the url at Wikipedia (his url gets screwed up because it contains parens)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Mono_and_Microsoft.E2.80.99s_patents

And it looks like the Windows Forms and such stuff may be a patent problem.

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Re:Mono 2 released by jcl on Monday October 06, 2008 @11:16AM (#324976)
On the other hand, "may be a patent problem" is an appropriate description of any recently written software.

I would expect Microsoft to fulfill its "Linux violates n Microsoft patents" threat before it does the same for Mono: Each programmer using Mono enhances the .NET ecosystem, while each Linux installation degrades Windows' market share.

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