Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 01:03 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
[…]
> 
> Both the C# specification (
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm ) and
> the common language infrastructure (CLI)  (
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm )
> have been standardised for some time now, so that aspect is safe from
> Microsoft.   It is worth noting that not all C# modules are covered by CLI
> - such as the cryptography library.

Just because there are standards doesn't mean patent issues have gone
away.  Most mobile phone technology is standardized but there are some
patents that have to be licenced, supposedly on "frand" terms, but,…
(cf. Apple vs. Motorola for a classic case of how to "game the system".)

Clearly though mobile phone technology involves hardware and hardware
implemented software things so the patents tend to be real. In the
software world patents are a nightmare, well in the USA anyway. Most
countries such as UK (but not the EU, so you can get software patents in
the UK :-( do not grant software patents. So the threats Microsoft have
over C# and Mono are arguably not as real as the mobile phone ones,
except in the USA.

Of course in the USA you are not allowed to use doubly-linked lists
without paying royalties. http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US7028023
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