Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac

TrueSatan writes "Miguel de Icaza, via his blog, has explained his gradual move to the Apple Mac platform. 'While I missed the comprehensive Linux toolchain and userland, I did not miss having to chase the proper package for my current version of Linux, or beg someone to package something. Binaries just worked.' Here is one of his main reasons: 'To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl.' Reaction to his announcement includes a blog post from Jonathan Riddell of Blue Systems/Kubuntu. Given de Icaza's past association with Microsoft (CodePlex Foundation) and the Free Software Foundation's founder Richard Stallman's description of de Icaza as a 'traitor to the free software community,' this might be seen as more of a blow to Microsoft than to GNU/Linux."

Comments

Can't blame him....

[Anonymous Coward]

I left Linux for the same reasons for the most part.

RMS.

[aardvarkjoe]

Free Software Foundation's founder Richard Stallman's description of de Icaza as a 'traitor to the free software community,'

Well, if I wasn't before, I'm firmly on de Icaza's side now.

Who cares?

[xtracto]

A random Mexican (disc. I am a Mexican too) writes about some crap in his personal blog, someone posts it to /. and everybody gets their panties in a bunch.

Meh, I don't like Apple philosophy and a lot of the shit Jobs made, but right now I am writing this from a Mac I got in my current job and I have no problem, iterm2 and brew give me everything I need from the Linux world.