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Mono and RAND

Posted by schestowitz on · 3 comments
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As some people here probably already know, I am no fan of Mono - not for technical reasons (mostly [3]), but simply for political ones. Specifically, I’m talking about so-called Software Patents, and even more importantly, precisely who owns those patents

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Comments (3)

dinotrac ·
what patents?

If you are going to claim that mono (not Microsoft's .Net implementation) infringes claims in patents, you had best be prepared to list them.
tracyanne ·
One thing that Silverlight does is make programming dynamic/interactive media presentations trivial fro .Net programmers, which means that development of such software will be cheaper, than the Adobe Flex version.

The place where I work is already seeing a large difference in costs, between doing it with .NET Silverlight and getting a contractor/3rd party dev shop to do it with Adobe/Flex/Flash
Sander_Marechal ·
What we need is a Python/clutter browser plugin.

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