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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."
Time to open up OSX and allow it to be installed on any computer.
Mono was/is a good project, and De Icaza is a great coder and hell of a guy.
But nope, we're going to get all up in arms about using an ISO standard language because a guy at Microsoft came up with it. Better get those Java VMs installed!
How'd that java thing work out for the free software community, anyways?
...he's just bored or lazy, or both.
He expressed a preference for things that work. People who think that is bad are the biggest problem with the fractured mess that is Linux.
Ahh, Bastard Lying Larry, good to see you. The headline assured me at least one Linux zealot or FOSS extreamist would leave a comment hating on Miguel. No shock that you are among them. It goes without saying that Miguel has a proven track record of producing free software, and you, a sniveling piece of shit, only have a long history of trolling Slashdot. Fuck you, asshole.
Tim: Okay now Miguel. Spread over this barrel so we can insert Steve Jobs' dead dick where the sun don't shine!
Miguel: Oh boy! Oh boy!
Ballmer: Ew. That's just TOO creepy! Even for me! *Throws a chair*
Many things changed since you had to "compile and tweak libproffer0.2.3". Today Linux just works, and for me personally it is much easier to use than Windows. So, "My family time is limited and I'd rather be spending it with them" than uninstalling "Antivirus 2000" trojan or Ask.com toolbar.
Horse shit that Linux just works. Going on 15 years with Debian along-side OS X and not a single fucking release before a few weeks later in apt-get within Sid do I have some packager screwing up dependencies and/or patching software incorrectly but uploading a new update because it worked on their hobbled configuration, while never testing on a clean staging box to see if his chroot environment has something a standard box will not. It's a constant fiddle fuck with every bit. Take GCC and the constant gcc-4.7.x-nn updates and their mix 'n mash with glibc.
Shit, I can't even waste time dealing with retarded build dependencies requirements for LLVM/Clang 3.2 requiring gcc-4.8 experimental, when I'm building cleanly from trunk against gcc-4.7.2-5. I got bullshit answers from the maintainers and until that crap goes into Sid and they stop fucking around with path changes in libstdc++ and/or now that libc++/lldb/compiler-rt are building from trunk with Debian I personally will dump that crap the first moment the entire archive builds against LLVM/Clang or FreeBSD 10 is finally released, whichever comes sooner.
I understand a lot of budding developers cut their teeth on Debian packaging and more before they worked in SV. I did the opposite and cut my cred at NeXT and Apple. Coming from that to the rest of the industry taught me the rest of the industry is 99% shit and ductape and 1% quality talent. It has been that way for well over a decade and is getting worse.
I'm just thankful Apple and Lattner collectively said, ``Fuck it'' to GCC and invested heavily into LLVM and bringing the world LLDB, Clang, and more. They've convinced most of the talent in the industry to jump on-board. Even Debian is waking up.
What I took very personal was how de Icaza wrecked the superior SuSe distribution which was the flagship of KDE. It was difficult to inflict more damage on KDE than the Novell acquisition and what Icaza has done with his toolkit fetish. Now KDE 4.10 is an absolutely impressive desktop but where would we be today if Suse had not been compromised by this Mexicoder. Caldera, Suse, Nokia. We see the picture! Suse has to be put into German hands again and become the driving force behind KDE. Stop the influence of all these incompetent US corporations and Mexican flame baits. Build organisational fire walls against poisonous coding. Libreoffice / The Document Foundation has shown the path to independence.