Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
Re the request by Microsoft to speak at the Hyderabad usergroup on DotNet, I think a similar topic was presented at LinuxBangalore in 2002 or 2003.
I wonder how someone like RMS would respond to such a development, which seems to me like an 'embrace and extend' style of combatting GNU/Linux. FN
On the other hand, this might be a great opportunity! Participants can read up on the Mono project beforehand, and ask M$ pointed questions on how patent-unencumbered .Net really is, to allow Free Software world to use it.
There are manay analogies of .Net/Microsoft to Java/Sun with respect to licensing/freedom(or lack of it)/patents/standardisation, and if one is comfortable with the latter to any extent, they should be interested to know how the .Net platform is going to contribute to Linux based distributions.
- Sandip