On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto <denisfalqueto@gmail.com> wrote:
Funny you say that... Looking over the Moonlight homepage, there is the Microsoft covenant for not sueing who uses it. The first paragraph is very "interesting":
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx
Basically, they agree not to sue you (the Moonlight users), just if you use a copy of the implementation only as a plugin and the copy must be made between the period of validity of the covenant. In other words, they can pull the plug on that and can sue everyone they want.
Could be. To my non-lawyer eyes, that looks like nothing, though. I mean, if that agreement didn't exist, would MS really have a case against Novell and the Mono/Moonlight projects?
I hardly think this is a good thing, even though the pure techonogy is better by now.
Well, for one, Moonlight is opensource while Flash quite certainly isn't. That should mean something, no? --vk