<p><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 4, 2010 1:08 PM, "Daniel Eckl" <<a href="mailto:daniel.eckl@gmx.de">daniel.eckl@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br><br>I'm still puzzled about why somebody would think .NET could be<br>
involved. If you want to run .NET code on Linux, you have to go for<br>
mono anyway. Well of course, one might think that Microsoft then could<br>
argue that mono is infringing some of their patents, and that's why<br>
the port is not possible, but that's rather doubtable, because in this<br>
case MS could have killed mono for good long time ago. Okay, dunno<br>
what deals Miguel de Icaza or Novell might have with Microsoft, but I<br>
can't imagine that there are hidden unbelievable secrets.<br>
<br>
Patents more often are in techniques like physics engine (havok,<br>
physix, etc) or voice middleware (vivox, voiceage) or such. If the<br>
patent owner refuses to do the port and refuses to give<br>
permission/docs to you to port it yourself, then you're busted, no<br>
matter how good you can develop.<br>
<br>
2010/9/4 Валерий <<a href="mailto:jazzvoid@gmail.com">jazzvoid@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<p><font color="#500050">> I don't really understand what features of .NET could be removed from server
> and hardcoded in cl...</font></p></blockquote></p>