Microsoft and Novell agree not to litigate patents

In open source news (as it pertains to Mono), Microsoft and Novell agree not to litigate patents, including protection of each other’s customers. As usual I am about three days late on this announcement, but this is important enough for the Mono implementation of Windows features to make it noteworthy. Also note that Second Life compiles LSL to CLI then uses embedded Mono to execute the CLI (though that part of Mono was never threatened by patent infringement issues).

This is important for a free and open source tool, and is included on my software page.

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November 5, 2006 • Posted in: legal, opensource

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