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Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the people-who-need-to-invest-in-decaf dept.

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 ..."

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  1. I LIKE IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Miguel De Icaza hates it, I LIKE IT!

  2. Same old... by jav1231 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like Miguel still pimping a marriage with Microsoft. Dude, she likes country and he likes rock-n-roll! Seafood vs. burger and fries. He's frugal, forward looking and she spends money like a drunken sailor! More importantly he just wants some freedom and she wants to tie him down. Let it go!

  3. Open Microsoft by dvice_null · · Score: 5, Funny

    "de Icaza: I hope so. It might end up that at some point Microsoft just open ups .net"

    LOL

    1. Re:Open Microsoft by snoyberg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Note: most of that list was alphabetical.

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      Thank God for evolution.
  4. Re:I just find it's terribly dumb by TeknoHog · · Score: 2, Funny

    In another version, "keep your enemies in a small .jar on your desk."

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    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  5. Re:Yay Miguel by Ed+Avis · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no sarcasm intended. Mono is excellent.

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  6. This reminds me of a movie quote... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Bill, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

    Icazablanca. Coming soon to your local theater.

  7. Re:i just want by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, right, because Moonlight won't be able to? What about the codec pack Microsoft will release for non-Windows operating systems, for x86, x86_64, and PowerPC alike, specifically and solely for Moonlight?

    Why is it that the trolls crawl out from under the bridge whenever Mono comes up?

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    "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."