Microsoft Does Not Reply to Request for Mono Patent Protection
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-10-18 15:45:34 UTC
- Modified: 2008-10-18 15:45:34 UTC
As we
promised to do, we have have just resent our request to Microsoft Licensing. They have not replied for over a week.
From: Roy Schestowitz
To: iplg at microsoft.com
Date: Sat, Oct 18, 2008
Subject: Request for a written license for ECMA 376 implementation
Dear Microsoft Licensing,
I would be interested to receive a licence for commercial distribution
of Mono, in accordance with your terms presented by Bob Muglia:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2060750,00.asp
"There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an
implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by
Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell
is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to
Novell customers."
According to several legal analyses, Mono is not safe for those who are
not Novell customers to use. I would therefore like to purchase a licence.
Best regards,
Roy Schestowitz
Meanwhile we have
identified possible patent violations in Mono, which may collide with existing Microsoft patents (not even
submarine patents).
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Comments
xISO_ZWT
2008-10-18 18:32:38
Needs Sunlight
2008-10-19 12:36:14
For our amusement, could you use the same title (or part of the same title) along with a week number?
Roy Schestowitz
2008-10-19 12:40:42
Needs Sunlight
2008-10-22 17:47:25