LXer: Considerations on Patents that Read on Language Infrastructure
 

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Since the torrents of IANALs have been filling the Internet tubes with passionate arguments on Mono/No Mono, it seemed a good time to weigh in with an article written by an actual lawyer on the possible risks and dangers. "Without that explicit patent license, we certainly should prefer the community-driven and Free-Software-developed languages over those developed by companies (like Microsoft) that have a history of anti-Free Software practices."

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