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Technology Review Profiles Miguel de Icaza
prostoalex writes "Technology Review has a feature story on Miguel de Icaza, currently Novell VP of Product Technology, but more known as the leader of Gnome and Mono projects. Miguel is the man Don Box would like to see joining Microsoft for his "amazing amount of raw energy". If you read through the Technology review article, you will see that de Icaza was actually turned down by Microsoft at some point."
I met Miguel, like, back in '98 at a conference in Mexico. Yes, Linux existed there back then!
We chatted and I quickly found he was more than just a Rob Malda or Rusty Foster, guys who talk the talk and get all the fame but can't back it up when it comes to lines of code per hour counts.
Miguel simply AMAZED me with his knowledge and skill. He ever opened up a digital projector and messed with the PROM or jumpers or something and fixed it within 20 minutes, just in time for his talk.
de Icaza is nothing short of amazing. I DO however question his judgement to kind of jump into the MS camp with MONO/.NET emulation, but I know that since he's smarter than me he must be doing the right thing.
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I'd like to thank Miguel for his contributions. I'm a gnome user, and it is quite nice. What I don't get though, is why he seems absolutely fascinated with the boys in redmond. He reimplements Outlook, and now he's reimplimenting their reimplimentation of Java. Why not get behind an OSS implementation of the original ala kaffe or gcj, or push the OSS own Parrot?
I think the most interesting part of the article was near the beginning, where it described him as being both idealistic and pragmatic. That's exactly the kind of person we need promoting Free software.
RMS was both at the start of his career - and, interestingly, he started fading out when he seemed to have lost the pragmatism (GNU/Linux, Hurd, etc.). Hopefully Miguel will avoid making a similar mistake.
To me, at least, it seems like he's got the world's best job: get paid to produce Free software. Not a bad gig.
-Erwos
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What an odd coincidence - we seem to be using our computers at the same time, imagine that amongst slashdot readers :)
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.NET, because no matter how elegant C# may be, and no matter how elegant the layers beneath the language may be - it's right now a surefire path to vendor-lockin.
.NET is out of the question for me, and I'd rather drive a cab (I kid you not - I am getting the license right now) than do MS/Oracle/RandomBigCorp/etc... only solutions. It simply is no fun to know that I in part work to help a big vendor maintain it's grip on computing.
.NET ECMA spec, and if so what makes you believe that ?
I am a total vendorlockin-phobe, I do "small-time" webapplications - and people come to me with their
I really shudder at the mere thought of
As long as MONO is still infant (or is it adolescent by now ?)
There is a lot of speculations around about whether MONO is playing a realistic game. Will M$ just strangle MONO if you get too close etc... and I have very little knowledge to help me judge on that.
Is there any where I can read the MONO viewpoint on this issue. I would love to see a FAQ type document addressing these concerns.
For instance: I know not enough to understand the implications of the ECMA thingie, but I can't help thinking that Javascript has an ECMA spec (ECMA script I believe) and that MS does not adhere to it fully.
Does the MONO community believe that MS will stick to the
So in short:
Did the MONO community consider 'worst-case-MS-behaviour' and the following worst-case-scenarios ? And if you did, is there some where I can read about that ?
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