[Discussioni] [API, C#] Microsoft, C#, Mono, API e brevetti

[Andrea Glorioso]

Ciao a tutti.

  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829797,00.asp

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[...]

Believing  in the usefulness   of  bringing  .Net programming   beyond
Microsoft operating systems, the Mono  programming team had planned on
releasing open-source versions of Avalon and Indigo. 

Since both  technologies are  still very  early  in  their development
cycles,  "they are not in the  radar at this  point," according to the
Mono Project Roadmap.

Still, work  recently  began on an   open-source version of  Indigo on
Novell Inc.'s sponsored MonoIndigo site.

[...]

The project administrator,  Rodrigo Mazzilli, announced  the project's
launch on June 3 on the main Mono mailing list.

[...]

A  few  weeks  later,  Microsoft  told The  Register that  "developers
planning to clone Indigo or Avalon will have  to first engage in talks
on licensing the company's Intellectual Property."

A  Microsoft representative confirmed   that "while Microsoft is quite
open to discussing with Novell the licensing of potentially applicable
intellectual  property, Novell   has  not  licensed anything or   even
approached Microsoft on this topic."

And, as far as Microsoft is concerned, any attempt to reverse engineer
Avalon or Indigo will require a license.

"Intellectual property is something any cloner  needs to think about,"
said a Microsoft spokesperson.

"While a  license  is not  required  to  install Avalon or  Indigo  on
Windows or to build an application  that calls them; if someone wanted
to clone Avalon   or  Indigo from  top   to bottom, then  they  should
approach  Microsoft  about  the  licensing  of potentially  applicable
intellectual property."

Not everyone is sure that Microsoft will be able to make this stick.

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Ciao,

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