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Posted in GNU/Linux, Hardware, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Patents, Samsung, Windows at 1:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Remember Google's Android and Miguel de Icaza's plan to put Mono on it1?
=> Google's Android and Miguel de Icaza's plan to put Mono on it
Remember Samsung, its Mono phones, and its patent 'protection' deal with Microsoft?
=> Samsung, its Mono phones, and its patent 'protection' deal with Microsoft
If so, the following news ought to make you react.
Canadian Windows ISV helps mobile Linux effort
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OpenNETCF Consulting, which has offices in Ontario, develops products for the Windows Mobile platform and is currently in the preliminary stages of a discussion with LiMo to get Novell’s Mono Framework, the open source framework that replicates the .NET Framework, onto the Foundation’s platform.
Needless to mention, it isn’t trivial to just remove Mono packages from telephones where there is an embedded stack. And speaking of Mono, a few days ago, someone made the news having put Mono on the OLPC. What are they thinking [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33]? █
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___1 It is likely that no harm is meant by Miguel de Icaza, but it’s important that he realises and openly explains the [com|im]plications of his more recent work for Novell.
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