Re: [DotGNU]Microsoft is claiming IP on the "standards" they submitted

[Barry Fitzgerald]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> >
> > on the talkbacks, this one guy had said that MS has
> > run out of standards to emrace and extend, so what he
> > thinks they plan to do is to kill Java with the
> > standardization of C#, then when all the web pages
> > depend on C#, they will make proprietary extentions to
> > it (like they tried to do with Java) then they will
> > have the web by the balls. and this time no one can
> > sue them for IP infringment like Sun did since M$ owns
> > C#.
> >
> > they are so evil :(
> 
> Sounds like a good reason to continue ignoring C#
> 


I disagree outright, if we don't do something with this - MS owns the
net anyway.  If C# takes off, then we've got an alternative.  If C
doesn't take off, then our insurance policy was bought in vain and we
have an extra language to leverage for our own purposes.  But ignoring
C# won't help us - ignoring MS' authority WILL help us.

        -Barry