RMS Asks Miguel to Explain Himself

phaze3000 writes "RMS, responding to questions from the audience at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil last week, has asked Miguel de Icaza to explain himself to the Free software community about comments made last week that Gnome should be based on .NET in the future. More details at Brazillian site Hotbits and in The Register." I find this amusing.

Comments

Fuss about nothing.

[JohnBE]

RMS actually seems to be pretty rational when it comes down to it. If Miguel puts up a rational argument I'm sure he'd swing RMS's opinion. I wonder if there will be a EMACS .net plugin. Somehow I doubt it.

Has this guy been living under a rock?

[npietraniec]

"Stallman only learned of de Icaza's intentions to slip the Mono project - based on Microsoft's .NET framework - into Gnome as "the natural technology upgrade" when asked by the audience."

Way to keep up to the date on news there, Rich.

Isn't this proof that he's "out of it" when it comes to technology?

Not trolling, just a thought.

Why must Miguel explain himself to RMS?

[Ars-Fartsica]

Its Miguel's company, and in the free market he's free to make whatever strategic decisions he likes. If RMS doesn't like it, he can either make an equity investment in Ximian, or he can shut his cake hole.

This man is becoming increasingly irritating, a modern day Rasputin (in looks as well as deeds).

Go RMS go!

[Archie Steel]

Although I'm ready to give Miguel de Icaza the benefit of the doubt, I have to admit that his words were quite surprising - possibly ill-chosen...In any case, he really should explain exactly what he means.

The most likely short-term effect of this declaration is that some people are going to migrate from GNOME to KDE...perhaps, in his way, de Icaza has succeeded in solving the so-called "Desktop Manager Wars"! (Personally, I use GNOME, but KDE is okay...)