RE: [Linux-aus] SMH and The Age :)

["Brent Wallis" <brent.w@infosynergy.com.au>]

Hi,
But are not critical parts of .NET being prepared for patents?
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG0
1&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&O
S=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685

FUD to the power of 3?
3 FUDS and we're all out?
BW

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:jdub@perkypants.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:23 PM
To: linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] SMH and The Age :)


<quote who="Leon Brooks">

> Bollocks. Microsoft think of .NET as being an open standard; they're 
> just publishing officially good vibes and hoping everyone comes to 
> their party.

Critical components of the .NET platform *ARE* standards (ECMA TC39/TG2
and TC39/TG3).

  "The following organizations have participated in the work of ECMA
  TC39/TG2 and TC39/TG3 and their contributions are gratefully
acknowledged:

      Fujitsu Software, Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation,
International
      Business Machines, ISE, Microsoft Corporation, Monash University,
      Netscape, OpenWave, Plum Hall, Sun Microsystems"

You can't fight FUD with FUD!

- Jeff

-- 
   "I think it will be admitted by all that to have exploited so great a

     scientific invention for the purpose and pursuit of entertainment

    alone would have been a prostitution of its powers and an insult to

        the character and intelligence of the people." - John Reith

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