.NET and Mono. Call for action: ask for retraction

[Clay Shirky]

> I agree that Nick's article was not nuanced but the greater point
> was the concern that MS might use Hailstorm svces as a hook. At
> OSCON last week Clay Shirky asked Mundie and Stutz if it would be
> possible to complete a Hailstorm transaction without ever "phoning
> home" and hitting a MS server -ie. would the various protocols and
> message formats used in Hailstorm svces be documented and open so
> that 3rd parties could provide Hailstorm-compatible svces- and the
> answer -after considerable hemming and hawing- was 'yes' and that
> MS's services had "no automatic franchise in this area" and would
> compete on an equal footing. Mundie even brashly predicted that MS
> services would still achieve dominance, but on their own merits,
> not because of some unfair advantage. --PL

Yes, wasn't that interesting. I was frankly surprised by that answer,
but if its true, I'm also pleased, so I'll be following up with Stutz
to check on the limits of that 'yes'.

-clay