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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by melling on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:48PM (#7525096)
Are you referring to this? It doesn't sound like he was trying to kill Mono, he just didn't want to depend on it because of the patent issue.

https://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

So, five years later Microsoft makes another step in the right direction, and you think he's wrong because he didn't want to risk building the open source environment around something that could go away with a simple threat.

Btw, doesn't Microsoft make more money from Android patents than Microsoft phones? Microsoft does exercise their patents.

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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by scj on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:49PM (#7525827)
Not to mention that in 2009, when RMS wrote that, the TomTom lawsuit recently happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._TomTom_Inc.

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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by leoc on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:26PM (#7525519)
Speaking of which, have the patent concerns about ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows Forms gone away yet?
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by Delmania on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:19PM (#7526207)
ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms are licensed Apache 2.0, as id the Entity Framework. I don't think ADO.NET, WinForms, or WPF will go the same route, and I also don't think they need to.
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