Microsoft's Open-Source Trap for Mono

drakaan writes: Yes, Microsoft has pledged to "open up" the source code to the .Net framework libraries. Therein lies a potential problem...

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes:

...Let's say a year from now, Microsoft does a SCO. They claim that Mono contains code that was stolen from the .NET Framework reference source code. They point at their code, they point at the license, and sure enough, there's similar code. After all, both projects are implementing .NET; there will almost certainly be lines of code that looks alike...