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Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome
Knuckles writes "Austrian newspaper Der Standard continues its recent series of in-depth interviews with free software developers. This time they sat down with Novell's Vice President of Developer Platform, Miguel de Icaza of Gnome and Mono fame. The interview was conducted at GUADEC (GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference).
Miguel talks mainly about Mono 2.0 and .Net 3.5 compatibility, enhancing the collaboration with Microsoft over Silverlight ('Moonlight' in Mono), and the larger political situation of Mono and Moonlight. When the interviewer asks whether Moonlight is only validating Silverlight on the web, Miguel gives a quite detailed answer that includes a possibly well-deserved swipe at Mozilla ..."
I have still seen the work he has done to fragment the OSS community. He may have contributed a lot of code, but still works against many of the concepts of F/OSS.
Part of freedom is not buying into the hogwash concepts of the freetards.
He seems to cuddle up to MS at every opportunity and frankly
In the grown-up world, interoperability is vital. Even Microsoft has figured this out. You apparently have not.
The code is already out and it can be forked (The POINT of F/OSS).
Right, but when the code out there misses the point, forking it won't help. You have to start anew. Hence, Mono.
He loves to control things and recreate the MS universe.
And so far, he seems to be "controlling" things very well. As for "recreat[ing] the MS universe"--what Mono proposes is a better design than what you currently see available on Linux, so there's nothing but benefit in the project. After all, nobody's forcing you to use it.
(Mono works fine with KDE and Qt, too. When not on working on Windows, that's my DE of choice.)
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."