[KLUG Advocacy] Another interessting article

Jamie McCarthy jamie at mccarthy.vg
Mon Jun 7 09:36:36 EDT 2004


awilliam at whitemice.org (Adam Williams) writes:

> THE CORE OF .NET IS AN ECMA STANDARD!!!!!

> And there is nothing platform-centric about .Net, crack a
> stinkin' book.

The trouble is that Microsoft is extending .Net in whatever
direction it pleases, and can/will patent some of those extensions.
No open implementation will be able to be 100% Microsoft-compatible,
thanks to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
-- 
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie at mccarthy.vg



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