Brian Densmore wrote:

>FYI, on "IronPython". The author of IronPython
>was recently hired by Microsoft. Is this going to
>be another case of embrace and destroy? Or is M$
>shifting war strategy, by wanting to plant Trojan
>horses in OSS via patents? Stay tuned fellow
>crime fighters... same bat time ... same bat channel...
>All I know is I would not feel comfortable using any
>OSS written by M$ employees, without some sort of
>written statement from official M$ channels stating
>that the code didn't contain any M$ patented algorithms,
>logic or source code.
>

I'll take Linus's line on software patents. They are landmines strewn
about the IT landscape and you can only hope that you don't step on one.
Take the recent 200+ possible patent infringements of the Linux Kernel
discovered by that insurance company....