From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2002-04-23T19:01:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on .NET?

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:54:30AM +0900, Clifford Heath wrote:
> 
> It'd be great to see a Ruby->IL compiler, and an open source
> CLR. I know of two attempts at the latter, but they seem to have very
> small dev't teams, only one or two people, and have the added difficulty
> of trying to clone C# as well.

And they are in an awkward area. MS has stated several times, that
they don't think it is possible to implement a full .NET-clone without
any patent infringement. :-/

"intellectual property": What a questionable concept.

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marko schulz