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jstedfast on May 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android Ported to C#

Microsoft has released their own MonoTouch-based applications (e.g. Star Wars Kinect), so I'm sensing there's nothing to worry about.

muyuu on May 2, 2012 [–]

They reserve the right to sue and they carefully patented every aspect they could. I see a lot of merit in the language itself, but the legal problems Google is having vs Oracle and Java they could also have them with Microsoft and C#/dotNET, worse even considering Microsoft is a competitor in several areas.

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