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bullseye on May 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mono Developers start their own company

Microsoft applied the "Community Promise" to the ECMA C# and CLI standards a couple of years ago.

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx

tytso on May 17, 2011 [–]

For C# and the core language, yes. But not anything higher on the .NET stack. Novell had some patents that was able to hold Microsoft at bay. But since Novell sold off their patent portfolio, who knows?

Personally, I wouldn't touch Mono would a ten foot pole, but that's just me....

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