[sf-lug] getting tired of Silverlight...

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Jan 20 22:19:15 PST 2009


Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com):

> http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight

If there's anyone who still hasn't heard why Microsoft Corp.'s patent
encumbrances -- which they use to control commercial rights[1] -- render
Mono Project's "Moonlight" runtime (functionally) proprietary and legally
dangerous, read the debian-devel thread, starting with Robert Millan's
post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg00063.html

[1] See "Patents" comments on http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing
and
http://web.archive.org/web/20030424174805/http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html





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