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Miguel de Icaza on Longhorn

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-to-the-future dept.

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.

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  1. Over used argument by 1000101 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "but in some other cases they got fairly good adoption of their products with little or no effort: just bundle it with Windows: MSN messenger, Media Player."
    This argument is old and irrelavent. Every OS ships with pre-installed versions of complimentary software. Microsoft does it, Apple does, and Linux does it. If the OS blocked the user from installing other software that would be one thing, but they don't and you can install whatever you want to.

  2. Re:Miguel: "Linux posed to conquer Desktop in 1994 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    I have to say, way better than DOS + pile of device drivers and Windows was only starting to be used with very few applications. Windows 3.11
    was out, with really few applications.

    Bullshit. Windows in 1994 had plenty of applications. Windows 3.11 had far more applications than Linux has today. It's sort of amazing that someone who's always riding Microsoft's jock could be so wrong about this.
  3. OK, So after reading through all this crap by ThoreauHD · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm guessing the general point is that Linux needs to create it's own JAVA. Is that about right?

    Icaza is no linux advocate, in fact I put him on par with Transgaming for usefulness for lack of foresight- but I don't see anything destructive about having the community put together their own JAVA-ish structure. I don't mean imitate it, but create a better virtual machine from scratch.

    That I can live with. But Icaza and his .NET isn't the right person to bring attention to this. Nobody likes his. He's a sellout, to be straight about it.

    "C# is the best language in the whole world! Microsoft is sooo cool! Have you seen it?!?! uNF uNF uNF Can you guys hire me cause I've been applying for like 10 years now??? huh? Can ya?? Huh??"

    Yea, He isn't someone that's worth a drop of GPL'd piss in my book. He may get a clue one day. But that day isn't today.