The problem with RMS is that he tends to frighten business people talking like a mad comunist, pretending that business people in the software industry feel gulty of making money out of the software they produce (which is an easy position to sustain for him because he was paid by the academy while developing GNU).
He probably is the number one ally of Microsoft's FUD campaign agaist Open/Free Software.
They SHOULDN'T be enemies, but with RMS disagreeing means BEING a enemy.
>We need both
You know what?, if Open Source/Free Software movement wants to pass beyond this "teenager" stage on which it is nowdays, there must come a time when we DON'T need them enymore . . .
>Evolution and Gnome are flaming piles of dogshit.
I couldn't agree more with you. I didn't say they were good, just that they are open source, many people used them (unless you live in a submarine, you should know Gnome is very popular) and are far from helping Microsoft in any way.
>Mono is "cross-platform" only as long as Microsoft wills it to be
Dude, have you the slightest idea about what Mono is and how it has been developed? Did you know that parts of.Net are an international standard (that is, not own by Microsoft anymore) and that the rest of the Mono platform had been largely developed without any help from Microsoft?
>Microsoft has a solid history of embracing, extending and extinguishing competitors.
Even when I must acknowledge this, I don't see how your conspiracy could work. Actually, it is clear that you don't understand what open source is about: there is no such competitor anymore! the "competitor" is a community which Microsoft can't buy or extinguish unless the community allows it to happen.
And know what? most of the time such community does exactly what Microsoft would like them to do: distract from important issues an enter this kind of endless, pointless and meaningless discussion about quasi-religious issues.
No, I didn't say he were my friend. I said I knew him in person (some improvements needed in your reading skills, I think). And from knowing him and what he pretends from the mono project I couldn't say he is a microsoft fanboy
>Well, he is trying to lure people into using more all-Microsoft technologies, just waiting for the patent trap to close.
Actually, he intends to liberate all those thousands of microsoft based applications and take them to linux. I found this particularly important because many linux fanboys forgot that there are many, many (I mean, MANY) home made business applications (most of them made using microsoft tools) that are a big obstacle when considering the migration to linux desktops. I know this well because I was part of some big studies for massive migrations to linux desktops
>This OOXML-preaching is the best evidence there is.
Did you read it? I've found over the last five years that most linux and open source fanboys tend to over-react to the headlines BEFORE even reading anything. And, actually, one interesting think about any conspiracy theory is that ANY counter argument is actually turned upside down to fit (and actually confirm) the theory.
In any case, life continues. Criticisms will continue but hopefully, Mono project will continue and will bring an important tool to the OPEN SOURCE world and, most important, will bring MILLIONS of business application programmers to linux. Time will tell.
> The guy's a complete microsoft fanboy troll who's trying to destroy Linux and Free Software in general.
So, the guy who started Ximian, the company that developed Evolution and main supporter of Gnome, not to mention Mono, one of the best projects for a cross-platform development tools, is trying to DESTROY open source in general . . . wow this is the more interesting conspirancy theory since the X Files show ended!
I know Miguel in person and I don't think he is a Microsoft fan boy. He just is not a fanatical and can acknowledge that Microsoft development tools are far better that any current open source alternative and that's why he is developing Mono, which if you haven't noticed is open source.
By the way, what have YOU done for the open source movement?
>Are Intel processors "super computers" now or something?
No, processors ARE NOT supercomputers (actually, the are not computers at all). But if you put enough of them together in the appropriate way, they BECOME a super computer.
Super computers are no longer made from special purpose hardware. Now it makes much more economical sense to build them from general purpose hardware like those Intel or Power PC processors. Look at the Marenostrum, a super computer here is Spain.
> Or he may think it is more important to establish is results and have them verified first before moving on.
I agree. In research, it is a common practice to publish preliminary results to validate them within the research community. It makes no sense to start developing a theory to explain their results if they end up being wrong!
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He probably is the number one ally of Microsoft's FUD campaign agaist Open/Free Software.
They SHOULDN'T be enemies, but with RMS disagreeing means BEING a enemy.
>We need both You know what?, if Open Source/Free Software movement wants to pass beyond this "teenager" stage on which it is nowdays, there must come a time when we DON'T need them enymore . . .
So, you use to disagree with people EVEN if they are not wrong? man, that's insane!
I couldn't agree more with you. I didn't say they were good, just that they are open source, many people used them (unless you live in a submarine, you should know Gnome is very popular) and are far from helping Microsoft in any way.
>Mono is "cross-platform" only as long as Microsoft wills it to be
Dude, have you the slightest idea about what Mono is and how it has been developed? Did you know that parts of .Net are an international standard (that is, not own by Microsoft anymore) and that the rest of the Mono platform had been largely developed without any help from Microsoft?
>Microsoft has a solid history of embracing, extending and extinguishing competitors.
Even when I must acknowledge this, I don't see how your conspiracy could work. Actually, it is clear that you don't understand what open source is about: there is no such competitor anymore! the "competitor" is a community which Microsoft can't buy or extinguish unless the community allows it to happen.
And know what? most of the time such community does exactly what Microsoft would like them to do: distract from important issues an enter this kind of endless, pointless and meaningless discussion about quasi-religious issues.
No, I didn't say he were my friend. I said I knew him in person (some improvements needed in your reading skills, I think). And from knowing him and what he pretends from the mono project I couldn't say he is a microsoft fanboy
>Well, he is trying to lure people into using more all-Microsoft technologies, just waiting for the patent trap to close.
Actually, he intends to liberate all those thousands of microsoft based applications and take them to linux. I found this particularly important because many linux fanboys forgot that there are many, many (I mean, MANY) home made business applications (most of them made using microsoft tools) that are a big obstacle when considering the migration to linux desktops. I know this well because I was part of some big studies for massive migrations to linux desktops
>This OOXML-preaching is the best evidence there is.
Did you read it? I've found over the last five years that most linux and open source fanboys tend to over-react to the headlines BEFORE even reading anything. And, actually, one interesting think about any conspiracy theory is that ANY counter argument is actually turned upside down to fit (and actually confirm) the theory.
In any case, life continues. Criticisms will continue but hopefully, Mono project will continue and will bring an important tool to the OPEN SOURCE world and, most important, will bring MILLIONS of business application programmers to linux. Time will tell.
So, the guy who started Ximian, the company that developed Evolution and main supporter of Gnome, not to mention Mono, one of the best projects for a cross-platform development tools, is trying to DESTROY open source in general . . . wow this is the more interesting conspirancy theory since the X Files show ended!
I know Miguel in person and I don't think he is a Microsoft fan boy. He just is not a fanatical and can acknowledge that Microsoft development tools are far better that any current open source alternative and that's why he is developing Mono, which if you haven't noticed is open source.
By the way, what have YOU done for the open source movement?
>Are Intel processors "super computers" now or something?
No, processors ARE NOT supercomputers (actually, the are not computers at all). But if you put enough of them together in the appropriate way, they BECOME a super computer.
Super computers are no longer made from special purpose hardware. Now it makes much more economical sense to build them from general purpose hardware like those Intel or Power PC processors. Look at the Marenostrum, a super computer here is Spain.
> Or he may think it is more important to establish is results and have them verified first before moving on. I agree. In research, it is a common practice to publish preliminary results to validate them within the research community. It makes no sense to start developing a theory to explain their results if they end up being wrong!
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