Comments on: What Google Should Do Now That Android is Being Poisoned by Novell (With Mono) and Sued by Microsoft http://techrights.org/2011/05/02/tossing-mono-in-the-lake/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: twitter http://techrights.org/2011/05/02/tossing-mono-in-the-lake/comment-page-1/#comment-116668 Mon, 02 May 2011 19:21:06 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=47880#comment-116668 Thanks, Roy, for your longstanding warnings against Mono and Microsoft’s patent machinations. I read that there are now 41 software patent lawsuits against Android. Think how much more potent that attack would be if people had actually fallen for Microsoft’s Trojan horses five years ago. As things are, it is clear that Microsoft’s actions are an abuse of process with vague patents against software they had nothing to do with. The public and judiciary will be able to see through this charade a lot easier and should be inclined to award Google damages if there is anything left after the US DOJ finally wakes up. A steady focus on facts at Boycott Novell and now Techrights exposed Novell and Microsoft’s fraud for all to see. It put a floor on free software liability that performance issues alone might not have. That is a fine accomplishment and I’m proud for what little help I might have been. The insults slung by Microsoft attack dogs like Jack Sckofield and Florian Mueller are flimsy, personal and only go to show that you were on the right track all along.

There’s lots of work to be done but things look good. The Groklaw community is coming to help and more journalists are starting to get a clue. The academic community is, of course, outraged. Here’s something PJ noticed in her news picks, the patent Google was recently charged $5 million over has been reduced to pure math. PR people can spew on and on but it will be hard for the legal world to ignore simple demonstrations like this. With a little effort on everyone’s part, the broad consensus against software patents will eventually find an expression in law.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/05/02/tossing-mono-in-the-lake/comment-page-1/#comment-116642 Mon, 02 May 2011 10:45:57 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=47880#comment-116642 Mono is also about making bad engineering acceptable, the Windows experience in a nutshell.

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