● 04.16.09

●● Novell is “Impressed” by Miguel de Icaza… Well, So is Microsoft

Posted in Microsoft, Mono, Novell at 4:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to Novell customers.”

–Bob Muglia, Microsoft President

Just found in the blog of Novell’s technical chief:

We’re continually impressed by Miguel de Icaza and the entire Mono community—to see how quickly they add Mono features. It has reached the level of maturity that we are supporting SLE Mono Extension as an innovative, supported version of Mono.

Well, isn’t that just lovely?

“I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue”

–Robert Scoble, former Microsoft evangelist

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