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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by sneak on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:11PM (#7526731)
> Apple after the NeXT acquisition but before the iPhone (look how expandable our new PowerMacs are; on the software side, we're now an open-systems-loving Unix vendor, and we'll even open-source our kernel!)

Remember that time (well within the iOS era) that Apple claimed that FaceTime would be an open standard for interoperability?

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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by tjl on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:13PM (#7527742)
It's my understanding that the original plan for how FaceTime worked was derailed thanks to Apple losing a patent lawsuit.
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by 72deluxe on Friday April 04, 2014 @06:17AM (#7530352)
Which lawsuit was that? I would be interested in knowing which patent they violated, and who the patent belonged to.
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by tjl on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:30PM (#7533741)
See this Ars Technica article,

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pate...

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