Enterprise open source Toolkit

Story: Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'

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What he said ..

The thing that bothers me is why they even wrote this tool in the first place. It bothered me when I first heard it announced. It bothered me when I realised people were actually using it and it still bothers me today. It's seemed obvious to me that it had two ways to go. It was either going to languish unused for a year or two and die, or it was going to be taken up and used and eventually, when the time was right for Microsoft to act, they would do so with their usual brutality. Then many many years later it would be proved that their actions were unlawful, they would be fined a 17 digit number, and would tie the court up in legal pin dancing for the next 50 years. Eventually, they would settle with the estate of the author's great grand children and everyone's happy.

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