itwire.com — Microsoft has decided to allow developers to use C# and the common language infrastructure, both of which are part of its .NET development environment, under the terms of its community promise, according to a statement from Peter Galli of Microsoft.
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trogdoorJul 7, 2009
"Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation, to the extent it conforms to one of the Covered Specifications, and is compliant with all of the required parts of the mandatory provisions of that specification"IANAL but I think that means yes.( from <a class="user" href="http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx</a> )
wallclimberJul 7, 2009
Hmmm, maybe it would be interesting to do some research on past promises from Microsoft and study their track record. Which list would be longer, I wonder...the list of promises kept, or the list of promises broken? Maybe what we need is for Microsoft to publish their definition of the word "promise", (yes, I know there is a standard definition, but we all know what Microsoft does to standards)
nosgJul 7, 2009
Let's avoid it anyways. Just to be sure.