[BNM] .NET Source code anyone?!

[Simon Willison]

On 11 Oct 2007, at 12:59, David Pashley wrote:

> If any of MS's code ends up in Mono, that's mono pretty much buggered
> really. No one who works on mono can in any way look at the .net code
> that's been released or Microsoft can sue the mono developers. The
> release of this code can only damage Mono and there is no way that it
> can help it.

Miguel de Icaza (lead developer on Mono) wrote about this recently:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Oct-05-2.html

Short version: the open source community has been carefully avoiding  
looking at proprietary code since GNU launched in 1983, so this isn't  
a new concern for them and they know how to handle it.

Cheers,

Simon