Maybe you guys are getting a bit carrried away. The Wall Street Journal's take on this deal was that it amounted to a Microsoft capitulation on IP rights to Linux. Only Redhat stock was hurt by the agreement (following closely on the heels of Oracle's decision to provide support for Redhat Linux). Maybe we should wait to see how things play out before making rash decisions.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel P. Berrange</b> <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com">berrange@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:01:49PM +0000, Paul wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> > > Currently, it is very unclear as to what (if any) patents are infringed<br>> > > and as Jesse has said, they are OIN members. However, the possibility
<br>> > > needs to be looked at as to what should be done. There is not really a<br>> > > problem of pulling Mono apps and libraries from FE, but for the likes of<br>> > > gnome, there is a lot resting on C#.
<br>> ><br>> > So, other than tomboy, beagle, and f-spot, what Gnome parts are C# dependant?<br>><br>> From memory, gnome was going to be making Nautilus and Evolution C#<br>> dependant.<br><br>If correct, this really needs to be raised upstream rather than here - if
<br>these apps did end up using C# and this was a problem for us, there's no way<br>I see Fedora having resources to maintain a fork without the C# bits, and<br>dropping such core pieces of our desktop is not a particularly desirable
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