Debian Today

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco
Microsoft is promising not to pursue patent claims against Linux and open-source software using the open-source implementation of .NET, Project Mono.
The company has said that third party implementations of its C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) – a language runtime – will be made available under its Community Promise. [...]

As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (“Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
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