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eWeek: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

“Novell’s Mono open-source group had been successful in porting
Microsoft’s .Net Framework, but Microsoft is insisting its Avalon
and Indigo intellectual property rights requires that any attempt
to produce open-source versions of these two will require
licensing.

“Avalon is both an API (application programming interface) and a
graphics architecture, while Indigo is an API and a communications
subsystem…”

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