Squandering one of the industry's best open source talents
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| You, personally, would convince more by going back to the innovation in GNOME
| that originally made you one of the most interesting developers on the
| planet. I want the old Miguel (and Nat - where has Nat Friedman been?) back,
| the one who demo'd Nat's Dashboard with Nat at OSCON. The one who led and
| pushed GNOME forward for so many years.
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| The one who still has the potential to turn the industry on its head. But not
| by being Microsoft's best friend. Nor by being its acrid enemy.
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| Rather, Miguel de Icaza can turn the industry on its head by putting his
| knowledge of interoperability and open source to work on developing the
| next-generation desktop (and not by recreating the "best" of Microsoft on
| Linux). It's not worth much to you, Miguel, but I think highly of your
| talents. That's why I'd like to ask you to get back to innovation, not the
| somewhat futile (meaning, few to no real customers will use it) Microsoft
| clone-ware you've been engaged in.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9808317-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss
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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on
| what basis they want to fight the free world.
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| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
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| [...]
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| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
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