Miguel de Icaza <miguel.de.icaza@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hello,
>
>> You've entered a different universe, but then again, your escapades in Linux
>> pretty much began when you went to Microsoft asking for a job (late 90s).
>
> Not sure what that is supposed to mean.
>
> But as usual, you do not know much about my trip to Microsoft. I
> figured
> maybe I should get the record straight before you go on reporting
> another
> "10%" of trivia as "100%" facts.
>
> I started writing free software in 1992, five years before I went to
> Microsoft to
> interview at the IE/SPARC team at the time. By that time I had
> contributed
> patches to Wine, I had written the Midnight Commander, I was
> maintaining
> libc for the SPARC, had contributed to one of the free efforts to
> bring AWT to
> the free Java (Kaffe), the "sawt" toolkit and was an active kernel
> contributor
> to Linux on the SPARC, had authored several device drivers, I was
> probably
> working on RAID and I had sent my first KDE patch.
Ask Roy what he did. I can tell you. He sponged off the UK Tax Payer in
an extended University stay and decided he didn't want a real job. He
now spends his time filling this group and forums with contradictory
posts which basically lie and exaggerate his anti MS agenda.
>
> I was already getting more interested in the desktop that the kernel
> work.
>
> Microsoft in 1997 sounded interesting. A good friend of mine that
> was one
> of the original developers that ported Sun's Java to Linux had
> finished college
> and went to work for Microsoft (this is back when Sun did not support
> Linux,
> but licensed it under NDA to whoever wanted it, and a team of folks on
> irc
> got together and ported it; Randy was the maintainer).
>
> Randy knew me from my work on Linux on the SPARC, and he was working
> on the IE team and invited me to interview to Microsoft. It was a
> great to
> meet Randy in person and Nat Friedman (another one of the early people
> that
> actually *contributed* to improve Linux).
>
> There was no `open source' term at the time, but I did ask the team
> manager
> for them to port IE to Linux and to effectively open source it. They
> did not
> know much about Linux at the time, but they said "you are free to port
> IE
> to whatever system you want in your spare time".
>
> Miguel
Tell the little shit nothing. It's a bit like Jorg Schilling who was
insulted and criticised by Chris Ahlstrom here. The COLA crowd actually
tried tearing Schilling to pieces despite his considerable contributions
to the OSS movement.
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