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Miguel de Icaza  
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 More options Sep 6 2007, 1:37 am
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel.de.ic...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 01:37:44 -0400
Local: Thurs, Sep 6 2007 1:37 am
Subject: Re: I tell you how does this look

Hello,

* I think we'll all agree that this collaboration can be seen as part

> of an strategy to gain acceptance in a flash dominated world. I've got
> no problem with that if this kind of competition benefits the users..
> but why didn't Microsoft standarize Silverlight like they did with CLR
> and C#? This make me think that all this collaboration is temporal.

I do not blame them.   OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been
FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that
there is something fundamentally wrong with it.   This is at a time when
OOXML as a spec is in much better shape than any other spec on that
space.

Besides, it is always better to have two implementations and then
standardize
than trying to standardize a single implementation.

* Will you continue to develop a parallel batery of open source test

> suite (like you have already) that are available not only to you but
> also to other independent open source developers?

Yes, those are some of the practices that we believe are core to Mono.

* What about microsoft patents? If I create my own linux distro or I

> use a distro that is not mainstream or just doesn't have a deal with
> the daemon.. err Microsoft.. like Novell has.. Will I have to suffer
> the shadow of Microsoft patents  over Silverlight when using or
> developing Moonlight?

Not as long as you get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include
patent
coverage.

Miguel


 
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