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De Icaza Responds on Mono and GNOME
miguel writes: "Here is my reply to the various questions on Mono, the future of GNOME and the Register statements." Linux Today has a copy of the email as well.
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Wrong. Programmer's lives are exciting, as long as you like Computer Science and enjoy tweaking with the little bits, discovering new things. Now, if Miguel started writing Unix software thinking he would be rich, surrounded by girls and driving Romero's Ferrari, he's far beyond dumbness.
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Could someone please play this email backwards, I'm afraid I'll be brainwashed into a Microsoft slut by the time I'm done reading it.
> Some people wonder if we have got a Microsoft investment or ;-) Man, I wonder what that would be like!
> contract (because I like this Microsoft technology). The answer
> is no. But I would take one if they wanted to fund my free
> software project
- Like being eaten alive by rabid hyenas
- Like being locked in a room where no one can hear you scream
- Like eating arsenic on your breakfast cereal
Or maybe it wouldn't be as good as all that.
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Dude, what's wrong with you? The rest of us are swimming in chicks, piles of cash and fast cars! You must be doing something wrong! As long as you follow the instruction book they send you when you start an open source project, all this can be yours. It outlines in clear steps exactly what you need to do to make your fortune using Open Source software, and it always works! Didn't you get yours yet?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
were you expecting to see a sig here? perhaps you'd rather see the inside of an ambulance!
The guy demanded a response, as if De Icaza was somehow obligated to jump when RMS said frog. He might, just might, try asking for more information and then taking time to frame a rational response instead of treating somebody else as a lackey who needed to come explain himself to the master. Stallman's good ideas and tireless campaigning for what he believes to be right get ignored because he comes across too often as a freak and a prick.
Some of the donations and grants the FSF brings in need to go to a good *publicist*, instead of more coders and lawyers. Like it or not, RMS is a poster child for the Open Source and Free Software movements, but he needs some serious help with his image before all those shiny folks in suits who make IT purchasing decisions will even pay attention to him, or anyone associated with him. A good souless weasel PR guy will keep RMS from making kneejerk responses that piss off folks who might otherwise go along with him, and it will free Stallman's time up for more of the things he does do well. Everyone wins - the pointy haired bosses can interact with the brighty colored and non-threatening Stallman Interface, and the real geeks can get work done with the Command Line RMS.
-reemul
You're just jealous 'cuz the voices talk to *me*
You need a shirt like this to remind the ladies that they find hackers irrestable. Women constantly say to me, "You know I do dig Unix... wanna go out?"
lynx_user_abroad wrote:
can someone explain to me why I keep running into Java apps that crash horribly on my Macintosh?
It's because you're using lynx.
I forgot to add this to my posting:
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
(Slashdot forced me to put more text than the three words, lame)