Re: About the status of Microsoft .NET

[Loïc Cerf]

Oi!


Le 14/12/2023 à 22:21, sirdigimon a écrit :
> I am writing to this email directory to ask specifically about the 
> programming environment that powers C# known as Microsoft .NET (see 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET> 
> for a basic overview) , more specifically, about its status and 
> inclusion on software repositories across GNU/Linux distributions (like 
> Trisquel GNU/Linux, Parabola GNU/Linux, etc.) given its primary issue: 
> Its software patents.

All the links then given are more than nine years old.  Here is a more 
recent discussion:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/something-about-csharp-mode-package-upcoming-gnu-emacs-29

I copy-paste here the position I expressed there:

The risk patents on .NET raise looked higher because, at the time, 
Microsoft "declared itself the enemy of GNU/Linux and stated its 
intention to attack our community with patents": 
https://www.fsf.org/news/2009-07-mscp-mono

Fortunately, as far as I know, that intention was never put in practice 
and the free software community has not much embraced C# (Gnote replaced 
Tomboy, Shotwell replaced F-Spot, GNOME Shell replaced GNOME Do, etc.). 
Nowadays, Microsoft declares "it loves Linux". As a consequence, 
Microsoft will probably not use the patents on .NET to attack us: it 
would not hurt the free software community much but would hurt the image 
Microsoft now wants to show.

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