Comment Re:A tie? (Score 1) 319
Microsoft submitted C# and the core libraries to ECMA and ISO for standardization. In doing so Microsoft committed to offer license for any patents essential to implementation under RAND terms (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory).
But your FUD is a strawman anyway, since you have not explained how Microsoft could escape the patent grant they have given to anyone who implement C# and core libraries. Such grants cannot be revoked by a buyer of a patent.
Make up your mind, are "C# and the core libraries" offered free or under a RAND? Also "C# and the core libraries" is only a part of what the Mono project needs to subsist independently.
I'm unconvinced. I'm not a layer but the FSF has lawyers that understand this much better and they recommend against it. I'd rather take advise from the lawyers of the FSF than some random guy in slashdot.
I find it especially ironic in a discussion about comparison between Java and C#, where only one of the vendors have actually tried to sue. And it is not Microsoft.
He asked about Mono. The situation with Java is similar I know.