Verily I say unto thee, that Naheem Zaffar spake thusly: >> It's hard to convict a criminal who has not yet committed the crime >> > totally off-topic, but if no crime has been committed, the person is > not a criminal. To elucidate my analogy: This particular criminal has "form", they've already been convicted, at least twice, on two continents. Any FBI profiler would describe this as a high risk scenario, providing sufficient due cause to take steps that would usually be a violation of that individual's civil rights, by e.g. invoking the Patriot Act. But stepping back from the analogy, I don't literally mean "conviction" in this case ... I mean taking measures to protect others. Protect /us/ from a known bad element who clearly has unambiguously bad intentions. > Slightly on topic (only because I feel there should be something on > topic in this post), yes some people are uncomfortable with Mono (I > myself uninstall it as my first task after installing Fedora), but > there are some checks and balances - there is the ECMA standards > certification and more importantly there is (or was - no idea where > it is after the Novell deal.) "protection" on this item from the OIN > - something which preceded mono's inclusion into Fedora. AFAIK the OIN do not own all the patents in mono-core. It's Microsoft's "Intellectual Property", provided under ECMA's supposedly "RAND" patent terms. If this isn't the case, I'd be most relieved to be proved wrong. -- Regards, Keith G. Robertson-Turner -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
