Comment by melling
11 years ago
Are you referring to this? It doesn't sound like he was trying to kill Mono, he just didn't want to depend on it because of the patent issue.
https://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono
So, five years later Microsoft makes another step in the right direction, and you think he's wrong because he didn't want to risk building the open source environment around something that could go away with a simple threat.
Btw, doesn't Microsoft make more money from Android patents than Microsoft phones? Microsoft does exercise their patents.
Not to mention that in 2009, when RMS wrote that, the TomTom lawsuit recently happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._TomTom_Inc.
Speaking of which, have the patent concerns about ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows Forms gone away yet?
ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms are licensed Apache 2.0, as id the Entity Framework. I don't think ADO.NET, WinForms, or WPF will go the same route, and I also don't think they need to.