Wine c.f. Mono

[Linus Walleij]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Andy Burns wrote:

> Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> AFAIK there is no clear rationale at all unless it someday comes out of 
>> the Red Hat legal dept.
>
> Strange beasts lawyers, in layman's terms Wine, Mono and gcj *SET OUT*
> to duplicate Win32, .Net and Java respectively, yet two get ruled for,
> and one against ...

Don't blame me man, I didn't do it.

Is Java encumbered by patents, really? Isn't it just the copyrighted 
reference implementation and testsuite that is the crux?

Linus