Miguel de Icaza on Longhorn

An anonymous reader writes "In Miguel de Icaza's latest blog entry the Mono project leader discusses the threat Longhorn's new technologies and frameworks pose to Linux and open source. He also directs users to this recent USENET post about the goals of Mozilla, which is a very interesting read. Originally seen on OSnews." Mmmm...Miguel smart. Seriously, good commentary - and ripe for discussion/flame wars.

Comments

Re:Finally seeing the truth?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or...you could use Java TODAY to do the very same thing dimwit!!!

The fact that you are latching on to an aging monopoly's reaction to a computing standard they don't control is just fucking sad.

Re:Mozilla Goals

[Anonymous Coward]

"Many people like loading an exact copy of the same web page."

Translation:

"I've been using IE for a long time now and I tell everyone I do so because it really is the best browser and not because I just want to hurry up and give in to whatever crap MS puts out. It is yet another stupid default behavior so typical of all MS software, but instead of doing the rational thing of admitting what a stupid feature it is, I'll just try to come up with some inane reason why it doesn't really suck."

Re:Here's Why

[maxpublic]

Miguel knows we need to reach interoperability to have a meaningful competition in the first place.

This assumes that any of the rest of us care to have a 'competition', which most of us don't. Most Linux users, and nearly all Linux coders, don't have an interest whatsoever in 'competing' with Microsoft or 'winning' whatever the hell it is The Cause(TM) people keep whining about here on Slashdot.

Microsoft may very well be the 'evil empire'. But Linux is not the Force, and none of you are Jedi. Time to put away the plastic light sabers and try to find a girl to occupy your time with (a real one, not the blow-up kind).

Max