Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 4, 2008 @02:06AM 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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Same old... by jav1231 · 2008-08-04 02:21 · 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!
Open Microsoft by dvice_null · 2008-08-04 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

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