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."

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Been There, Done That

[Greyfox]

And everything seems all pretty and shiny at first. Hell, a bash shell and ssh are a quick folder away from easy access. And you can buy games for the platform! Well I mean, now you have Steam on Linux, but not so much before. Indeed, it seems like the perfect balance between that open source functionality you've come to like so much and Microsoft's entirely commercial platform.

Eventually you'll want to do something on the platform though, and will find it difficult-to-impossible. Maybe it'll be that you want a different choice than the crappy low-end video card and the marginally less crappy "high-end" video card. Maybe you're finding your "high-end" video card is cooking itself and decide to attempt to install an OEM heat sink and cooling fan. Good luck with that. Maybe you'll want to do some Java development. Maybe you'll start hating how their directories are laid out.

Little things will start to rub you the wrong way, more and more. One day you'll find yourself formatting over the aluminum monstrosity with a current Ubuntu distribution. But you know, it'll be fun while it lasts. So enjoy!

Re:This is a true statement

[BasilBrush]

He's lamenting fragmentation of the Linux desktop. And you bring up Android... as if it was something that doesn't have that problem. LOL!