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Fedora and Mono and OIN

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2006-03-23 14:37. Mono
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Worried about Mono and patents? Heard of the OIN?

OIN is the Open Invention Network. Prominent members include Red Hat, Sony, Novell, IBM, and Philips, etc. The idea behind OIN: throw a bunch of patents in a pool. Make those patents available to open source developers, and to companies who support open source developers.

More importantly: pool those patents to counterattack companies who might accuse us of infringing *their* patents.

Read the rest.

Who's uninformed?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2006-03-25 21:24.

GCC *does* include a bytecode interpreter. It's called gij. Quoting the man page:

"gij" is a Java bytecode interpreter included with "libgcj". "gij" is not available on every platform; porting it requires a small amount of assembly programming which has not been done for all the targets supported by gcj.

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