RE: [DotGNU]RE: Lessig (was Re: As if the DMCA wasn't bad enough)

[Crist, Ma]

Yeah, the sluggish pace of releasing the source is a frequent topic on their 
list.  Their director insists it's close.  On the patent issue, discussions on 
their list indicate that the patents are merely defensive to keep someone from 
forking and creating a proprietary version of XNS.  Of course, I'm no attorney 
and would love to hear one's take on the patent language.

Cheers,
Mike Crist

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From: Rich Hilliard [mailto:address@hidden
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Subject: Re: [DotGNU]RE: Lessig (was Re: As if the DMCA wasn't bad
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| I hope you folks won't reinvent the wheel and give serious
| consideration to using XNS (http://xns.org) for this.

I would certainly give XNS serious consideration if I'd been able to
find *any* XNS source code or XNS specifications to study since
XNS.org was announced almost a year ago.

But it is hard to consider it seriously for dotGNU when their
technical reference page <http://www.xns.org/xns/techref.html> starts
by listing their patents.

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