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LinuxWorld: Business, Business and More Business

Posted by michael on from the no-match-for-the-power-of-the-dark-side dept.

Clarkson University wins a server from IBM. Sun is bringing embedded Linux to its UltraSparc IIe processors. Wired has an overview of LinuxWorld, talking about how it's all business and the joy is gone; and so does Internet.com; and so does Newsforge, which also has a story about LinuxWorld in Paris. The Register has a lengthy interview with Miguel de Icaza, in which he notes "Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET".

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  1. KDE declared the winner due to Gnome scandal. by TheViffer · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I'd like to see Gnome applications written in .NET in version 4.0 - no, version 3.0. But Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET," he told us. "A lot of people just see .NET as a fantastic upgrade for the development platform from Microsoft.

    If this was US politics, a candidate has just stated he supports a communistic form of governement and cant wait till he gets it installed.

    Interesting concept though, using .NET. But it will be a cold day in hell before Billy and the boys would do anything (even for profit) for an open source project that uses the GNU licence for many of its parts.

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    1. Re:KDE declared the winner due to Gnome scandal. by cyclist1200 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "They also had a tendency to copy some ideas of usability from Microsoft."

      Is that why KDE is more usable than Gnome?

    2. Re:KDE declared the winner due to Gnome scandal. by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Better to be the devil's right hand than in his path." --Beni, from "The Mummy"

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  2. How much do you love Microsoft's .NET? by nice · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just what exactly is the soul going for these days, Mr. Icaza?

    It's clearly a buyer's market.

  3. Vote: Miguel de Icaza for Troll of the Week by PeterClark · · Score: 5, Funny
    Thought: maybe Miguel was just getting bored at LinuxWorld and decided to throw out this little hand granade into the crowd to liven things up a bit? He definitely has my vote for Troll of the Week!


    :Peter

  4. Re:Miguel goes where most fear to tread... by zangdesign · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suspect that most people will probably disagree with him, however.

    This is /. He'll be lucky to escape with flesh remaining on his bones. Most of the Linux people here have no interest in making peace with Microsoft under any terms except total, utter physical destruction of the company, and anyone who uses MS.

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  5. New Proposed Icon by HeavensTrash · · Score: 4, Funny

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  6. Re:I'm sorry, but someone throw some cold water on by ekrout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on spaceman, you use linux, you should be able to write your own.

    Actually, I use a tweaked-out Commodore 64 for basic web browsing and email purposes. The rest of my time is spent improving Knuth's algorithms with pencil and paper methods in order to achieve a better run-time.

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  7. Just for spite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Miguel and company create interoperability with M$ backend platforms (e.g. Evolution/Exchange) and now with mono, comes that much closer. KDE is look and feel, Gnome is going deeper... much deeper

    With Ballmer's dire warnings about open source being 'potentially viral code', he must be going ape shit that an organization is shadowing their moves, keeping open source an alternative to their monopoly

    I'm reminded of the scene in 'Fight Club' when the fat bastard bar owner (Steve Ballmer) comes down to the basement and gets into it with Tyler Durden (Miguel) only to have a beat up and bloodied Tyler crawl on top of him... bleeding all over his face laughing manically... 'you don't know where I've been' - the bar owner scurries away yelling 'crazy fucker'.

    Gotta love it

  8. Re:You make the common mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    there many fundamental ways to improve on C# and the CLR - start by asking the LISP community, for example.
    (Oh (please God no) I don't (want (to (be (typing like this) for) the) rest)(of my (((life)))))