Written by diegoj the 25 Apr 09 at 11:58.

Firstly, I don't want to start a pro/against-Mono flamewar here. In a near future, I'm going to develop .Net on Windows, and I like some Mono applications as GnomeDo (which, in fact, I've helped translating it to Spanish).

Microsoft holds patents for the non-standards .Net libraries like Windows.Forms (and many others), Mono has implemented them, so Microsoft could demand Mono (and every Linux distribution, including Ubuntu) which offer this software.

So, I think that Mono should be treated as a multimedia codec and include Mono in ubuntu-restricted-extras, and not include this kind of software by default in Ubuntu distribution.

Firstly, I don't want to start a pro/against-Mono flamewar here. In a near future, I'm going to develop .Net on Windows, and I like some Mono applications as GnomeDo (which, in fact, I've helped translating it to Spanish). Microsoft holds patents for the non-standards .Net libraries like Windows.Forms (and many others), Mono has implemented them, so Microsoft could demand Mono (and every Linux distribution, including Ubuntu) which offer this software. So, I think that Mono should be treated as a multimedia codec and include Mono in ubuntu-restricted-extras, and not include this kind of software by default in Ubuntu distribution.

Written by diegoj the 25 Apr 09 at 12:05.

Microsoft demanded TomTom because of a FAT patent.

Ubuntu is the main competitor of Microsoft Windows, so it could be possible that Microsoft sues Canonical (or whatever Linux-company).

This Linux-companies must be prepared against this kind of demands. Classify potential demanded software, and provide an alternative or help rewriting conflictive software modules.

Microsoft demanded TomTom because of a FAT patent. Ubuntu is the main competitor of Microsoft Windows, so it could be possible that Microsoft sues Canonical (or whatever Linux-company). This Linux-companies must be prepared against this kind of demands. Classify potential demanded software, and provide an alternative or help rewriting conflictive software modules.

Written by diegoj the 19 May 09 at 20:59.

Canonical should join the Open Invention Network to protect Ubuntu against patent claims, that is to get helped about what of its software could be demanded.

Thus, it could be more legal feedback between big open source developers, making it stronger.

Canonical should join the <a href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/">Open Invention Network</a> to protect Ubuntu against patent claims, that is to get helped about what of its software could be demanded. Thus, it could be more legal feedback between big open source developers, making it stronger.