The Mono Mystery That Wasn't

jammag writes "It was shocking news, or so it seemed: Miguel de Icaza, the Mono creator, was switching his opinion about his life's work — he now seemed to agree with the free software partisans who oppose his Mono work and his Microsoft connections. The story flamed across the Internet and even got picked up on Slashdot. But Bruce Byfield reports that 'De Icaza has not changed his opinions.' De Icaza calls the rumors 'a storm in a teacup.' Tracing the misinformation trail, Byfield concludes that 'the FOSS community excels at communication. However, in this instance, that ability was used irresponsibly.'"

Comments

Re:Good News

[c0d3g33k]

Good news everyone. Icaza is still a whore.

If you make your living exchanging your talents for money, so are you. So what is your point?

Stop being so inflammatory. If you have a logical argument to make, make it and we will decide whether the argument is valid based on its merit. Otherwise you just blend into the rest of the noise of modern 'rhetoric' (with apologies to true rhetoric).

Still good for Slashdot...

[DMiax]

I can see the editor thinking "we already know this is fake news, but let's publish: we are missing a good Mono flamewar since forever!"

Re:Long story short

[The End Of Days]

Miguel doesn't care, because that "99% of us" turns out to be less than 1% of the real "us."

Re:Good News

[TheCarp]

I never understood whats so immoral or degrading about being a whore. Certainly there are segments of the "sex worker" community that are unsavory and engage in despicable activity (sexual slavery, mental/physical abuse, unfair exploitation) however, there are also those who work freelance and or enjoy their jobs.

I don't mean to ruin whores for you, I mean, maybe you need to see it as degrading and immoral to get off, your kink is ok I guess. Though, I no more understand that kink than asphyxiation, so it does seem a bit strange to me.

Re:Too bad. I was willing to think he'd grown up.

[Abcd1234]

I'd thought that after all this time he was finally wising up and accepting what everyone else you agree with was saying.

There, fixed that for ya.

I know, amazing! Some people might *actually* disagree with you, oh wise and omniscient one!

I know this is Slashdot but...

[Timbo]

...I'm amazed at how obtuse (and in some cases, downright insulting) the majority of the comments on this story are. I think it's highly likely that if .NET didn't come from Microsoft, nobody would be getting quite so emotional about the whole thing.

For the record, I'm categorically not Microsoft's greatest fan, but you cannot deny that .NET/C# is a damn good platform. Having a portable version of said good platform is therefore a Good Thing. It doesn't matter if Microsoft decide to fuck Mono over; it's still a good platform and therefore still a Good Thing. If you disagree and you don't like it, then fine; don't use it and stop whining.

Re:I know this is Slashdot but...

[phantomfive]

I think it's highly likely that if .NET didn't come from Microsoft, nobody would be getting quite so emotional about the whole thing.

As a matter of fact, that'snot true. The '.net trap' is just another version of the Java trap, only made more dangerous by the fact that Microsoft is known to be hostile to open source.

If you disagree and you don't like it, then fine; don't use it and stop whining.

The problem is that mono is included in Gnome, and if it spreads it will get harder and harder to avoid. Some of us would prefer to keep that from happening, because we know what the potential consequences would be.

Re:Inflamatory headling superceeds mundane content

[stoolpigeon]

You thought wrong.

First parties posting is one of the strengths of the dot.