Re: Mono apps in extras

[Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>]

Hee hee!

And I couldn't even tell you at the time.  But yes, Linus... you were dead 
exactly right.  Well done.  :)

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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Linus Walleij wrote:

> Looking back at the recently announced OIN initiative, in retrospect, what 
> I claimed was NotTrue(TM) proved to be TheTruth(TM), down to the 
> individual company names. This was an educated guess (really, Greg I hope 
> you didn't fall over each other trying to figure out how this guy in 
> Sweden could know what you were doing) so if anyone is looking for an OS 
> business analyst... :-)
> 
> (OIN, Greg spills the beans on Mono: http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html)
> 
> Linus
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> >
> >> If and when I can say more, I assure you that I will.
> >
> > Cool now you sound like a federal comission :-)
> >
> > That statement alone indeed confirms that it is a hot potato.
> >
> > In absence of statements we can happily start speculating which will in turn 
> > generate rumors. Here is my first RockingSpeculation(TM) which is certainly 
> > NotTrue(TM): RedHat has struck a deal of sorts with /insert big company name 
> > here/ that their lawyers shall go after Microsoft for all their patents they 
> > break in case Microsoft sue Red Hat or the Fedora foundation for any patent 
> > infringements.
> >
> > /big company/ could be for example Novell since they sort of make Mono, or 
> > could even be IBM. Both hold many patents dangerous to Microsoft.
> >
> > Linus
> >
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