“Two online essays touching on software patents recently crossed
my browser window. The first is Seth Nickell’s ‘Why Mono is
Currently An Unacceptable Risk.’ Nickell is a Gnome developer
(that’s Gnome the open source software project, not gnome who lives
in the garden), and his essay discusses his reasons for not wanting
to base any work on the Mono open-source .NET implementation. The
second essay is Microsoft’s ‘Patents Pending,’ part of their
continuing ‘Microsoft on the Issues’ series. Coming two days after
Nickell’s piece, this will no doubt strike some folks as the
official response from Redmond, though a moment’s thought will
convince most reasonable observers that it must have been planned
long before…”
“Why Mono is
Currently An Unacceptable Risk”