De Icaza Responds To Stallman

ndogg writes "It's no secret that Stallman doesn't like Mono. Miguel, however, has been pretty quiet about those criticisms, until now. It seems he'll no longer be quiet. He's responded strongly to an article by Stallman that criticizes Codeplex about its aims due to its origin at Microsoft. Miguel says Stallman is fearmongering, and is missing an opportunity by his criticism."

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Miguel Icaza Unforgivable

[hackus]

I won't forgive:

1) Deliberately trying to destroy the GNOME desktop project by taking key developers out of the project to work on MONO, specifically at Microsoft's request. Next time GNOME sucks, thank Miguel for it.
2) The introduction of MONO into distributions, technology everyone knows is patent encumbered, and serves no use, except to provide Microsoft with a stick one day to whack distros over the head with it, once it "infects" everything it touches.
3) His attacks on Richard Stallman for simply being upfront and truthful by declaring the emperor HAS NO CLOTHES.

MONO is so naked, I can see the pimples on its ass from here.

4) Accepting money from Microsoft, which has made no secret it wants open source destroyed of any kind, GPL or otherwise and being a mouth piece to stir up trouble in the open source community.

Those are my top 4 reasons, which I have a list as long as my left arm about this guys private and public antics behind the scenes, which is two faced to be kind.

Microsoft is not to be permitted into the Open Source community until its board is destroyed, its holdings are destroyed and the company is on its knees, suitable for purchase at pennies on the dollar by Redhat.

At which point, I would like to see Ballmer enshrined along with the other list of "so greasy you can't light a match near'em" CEO's like Darling Mcbride.
(McBride, if you ever get a job working for any other company besides McDonalds, I will insure they don't get a red cent, penny!)

Or......some other suitable company.....Ubuntosoft? :-)

Microsoft is more than welcome to join the open source community, as a pleb where it belongs.

-Hack