Coming late to this discussion, I would point out that the FSF article about Mono is based entirely on conjecture. Particularly this statement:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">"Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents"</span></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; ">I suspect if the OSGeo world were to base all decisions on the threat of potential future patent litigation, we'd pretty much all just have to close shop and go fishing or become used car salesmen instead of writing software... </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; ">- Dan</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span></font></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Nikos Alexandris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nikos.alexandris@felis.uni-freiburg.de">nikos.alexandris@felis.uni-freiburg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Cameron:<br>
<br>
> > Why was gimed developed rather than extending GeoNetwork?<br>
<br>
Angelos:<br>
<br>
> - When developing for HEMCO project, the time frame was very limited and<br>
> I estimated that a clean implementation would be faster.<br>
> - The project's specifications were also requiring C# because other non<br>
> FOSS API's were involved.<br>
<br>
I (too) was curious about that Angele (talming about C# and Mono). It is not<br>
clear to me, as an end-user, if and what dangerous license implications could<br>
rise in the future (reading: <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono</a>).<br>
<br>
I hope we will find the time to discuss about this and other issues in the<br>
upcoming GeoDataCamp in Athens.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Nikos<br>
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