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Microsoft, I give up or The Only reason you need that Java is "better" than .NET.
So the other day, as you've already read, Microsoft filed a mega-patent on all of .NET. The intent of it is clear, to give them leverage to shut Mono down once .NET is ubiquitous. I hate Microsoft's operating systems, I think they are just plain bad at writing them, but I like their office suite (minus its insistance on nasty proprietary file formats, but we're close to fixing that).
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Why is their intent clear? Mono isn't the only goal, if it is a goal at all. Protecting the billions they've invested so far is. Why have you only decided to jump on Mono? Owning a patent does not mean that it will be used to shut down Mono, so far they've been remarkably happy to keep Mono going. Mono is never going to be a real threat to Microsoft, it'll just never be in a state where it can run the latest and greatest .NET apps (it'll always be a version behind, and never support all the APIs needed) and it's certainly never going to take away from the Windows sales that are what Microsoft really care about (Which is what you exist for if you're a company with shareholders). The only time they would want to stop Mono was if they were going to release a Linux version of .NET themselves, and if that happened then the act of releasing it would be enough to kill Mono.
Microsoft aren't evil, they're just motivated by money. This is why they don't mind Mono, it doesn't cost them anything in development or lost sales. The moment Mono starts taking sales away and they consider it has got out of hand then yes, they might want to kill it but at the moment Mono is so far away from being either a threat or a viable option for running major .NET software that Microsoft don't care. Yes it's a potential weapon, but it's one that is more likely to be used to defend the points that you drone on and on about. If Mono ever cost money then it would be killed, but since it's free Microsoft don't see it as a threat.
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