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Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman

Posted by timothy on from the dances-with-monkeys dept.

Sheepish writes "OSNews features a long and interesting interview with Nat Friedman, of Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian Desktop 2 are included too."

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  1. MOD DOWN PLZ by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    The biggest reson why people will still use windows --linux is fucking hard to use and maintain on the desktop.

    We can't have that around here, now can we?

  2. Re:Still on the .NET path to Hell by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    I can't believe posts like these continue to be idolized and modded up. What Ximian, GNOME and friends (your "bunch of opportunists") are doing is bringing open source to the real world in a better package than it is delievered now. The problem with folks like yourself is that you subscribe to the "death to infidels" POV that unfortunately permeates so much of the OSS world. I bet you're one of those people who can't stand seeing RH or companies like Lindows making a buck. Only "absolutely free" is acceptable, eh? "In bed with Microsoft" indeed. Do you even understand what Mono is about? Here's a free hint: Absolutes don't work well in the real world, regardless of how attractive they are in those lofty whitepapers you find in gnu.org.

    You people talk about freedom so much - why don't you excercise that freedom and just ignore them? Those of us who enjoy using Ximian, GNOME and Mono day after day side by side with commercial software will be so much happier if you just keep your flamebait to yourself.

  3. Re:Still on the .NET path to Hell by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    you just ASSUMED that

    Well, you seem the type.

    what happens to anyone that gets in bed with MicroSoft

    Define "in bed". Microsoft released the CLI specs, an implementation that runs on *BSD/OSX and then submitted C# to ECMA. I'm sure these little details escape you, but do explain how is Miguel "in bed" with Microsoft for coding a CLI that works in Linux?

    they will be squashed

    Go read the CLI license (oh, you haven't?) as well as Mono's position statement (you haven't?). Then come back and tell me how they will be "squashed". By Microsoft changing the language specs? The .NET CLR/CTS/CLI specs? I hate to break this to you but they can't do that. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot as well.

    you are living in some fantasy world [...] what Mono is REALLY all about

    Seems to me that you live in said fantasy world and you have absolutely no idea what Mono is about. But that's fairly obvious by now, I think.

    but this one leads right to hell

    Let me give you another free clue. If you refrain from using phrases like "path to hell" then maybe people will ignore your paranoid posts and you won't look so foolish.

  4. Re:Miguel admited to wanting a job at Microsoft by DigitalCH · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, I can't understand why anyone would like to get paid a lot of money working with a bunch of bright people at a company who can change the world. ;-) Quit being silly...

    Be glad Miguel went the route he did. It is one of the best things that could have happened to the open source community.

    Oh, and your comment on the windows registry is misplaced... Do you remember windows before the registry???? A million little ini files... Drove me nuts... The biggest problem with the registry is that it should have been implemented as protected XML file. That way you could do fast compare and replaces when you need to. But you can't argue that it doesn't have good structure and that it wasn't desperately needed.