Name of Software
Submitter
Cause of Submit
Gstreamer
F4l3
patents
Linuxsampler
F4l3
[...] Mono
KeithGRobertsonTurner
patent encumbered with untrustworthy RAND clause from Microsoft
Mono dependants (ex. Beagle)
KeithGRobertsonTurner
Audit requiredt
Nvidia-xconfig
F4l3
used for configuring non-free drivers
Samba
F4l3
patents, reverse engineering
Vlc
F4l3
patents
After a brief search, I found that mono provides Microsoft .Net capability in Linux.
Thus I agree with you both. Microsoft by doing so is trying to establish itself as a standard by getting Linux ISV's to support .Net.
We saw what happened when Linux supported SMB (Samba). Microsoft changed the goal post and AFAIK inhibited Linux servers from being the primary domain controller. This locked in a Microsoft server, which kept one from developing an independent Linux server environment, breaking co-existence with Microsoft desktop clients.
I would like to see a break away from the Microsoft paradigm once and for all.
For most public companies, patents don’t pay off, say a couple of researchers who have crunched the numbers.
The EIOP is a bit more friendly to the open saucers and the anti-software patent campaigners such as the FFII and the Green Alliance.
Kappos said that the reason for this is that these groups are indicative of trends within the software industry towards open innovation and collaborative development.
Comments
Stephen
2007-07-17 09:38:56
Roy Schestowitz
2007-07-17 11:19:49