On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto <denisfalqueto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Funny you say that... Looking over the Moonlight homepage, there is > the Microsoft covenant for not sueing who uses it. The first paragraph > is very "interesting": > > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx > > Basically, they agree not to sue you (the Moonlight users), just if > you use a copy of the implementation only as a plugin and the copy > must be made between the period of validity of the covenant. In other > words, they can pull the plug on that and can sue everyone they want. Could be. To my non-lawyer eyes, that looks like nothing, though. I mean, if that agreement didn't exist, would MS really have a case against Novell and the Mono/Moonlight projects? > I hardly think this is a good thing, even though the pure techonogy is > better by now. Well, for one, Moonlight is opensource while Flash quite certainly isn't. That should mean something, no? --vk
