Miguel's delusions of grandeur
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| What is Miguel de Icaza's latest game? His obsession with tailgating
| everything that Microsoft develops - and trying to impress the company by
| producing Linux equivalents - now seems to be spreading to others as well.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15089/1091/
Related:
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
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.
|
| 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/
Open Source Evolutionary
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| Some people say the drawback to Mono is the saber rattling from Microsoft
| about patent, and that it doesn't support the latest versions of .NET. What
| is your relationship like with Microsoft these days?
|
| [Miguel:] So, I have two positions, and one is speaking as the person
| managing the Mono team, and then there is another answer speaking as a Novell
| vice president. So from the position of the open source community -- a
| position not attached to Novell -- we as any other software project are aware
| that software patents are a problem. We don't like them. We think they're bad
| for the industry, but we know that we need to abide by that system. So we
| have a very strict policy, that we'll not knowingly introduce patented code
| into the Mono code base. If somebody raises an issue with us about a patent,
| or that we're infringing on their code base, we'll be more than happy to
| either do an investigation to see if there's prior art that will invalidate a
| patent claim, or basically re-implement the same functionality using a
| different approach. Or, if worse comes to worse, removing the code from Mono.
| And I think that's pretty much the same rule that every open source project
| has to use.
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http://reddevnews.com/qandas/article.aspx?editorialsid=115
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