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Miguel, Microsoft and the drool factor
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| When he writes about Microsoft, it
| resembles the kind of writing that a kid
| does when he gets a shiny, new toy. De
| Icaza drools over technology announcements
| from the big M - and he ensures that
| people know he is in that state by signing
| off "droolingly yours."
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29599/1090/
Can (and will) Microsoft keep Silverlight compatible across platforms?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4648
No, teaches history:
A Comes Exhibit: "Undoc APIs document" - Update: And Another
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091125035600938
Recent:
The Future of Moonlight, II
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| It seems like just yesterday that Miguel de | Icaza took such umbrage at being called a
| Microsoft apologist. Strange then, that he
| has now taken up the robes of a Microsoft
| evangelist, suggesting that it is at-long-
| last finally time to âstart a movement to
| create a suite of Silverlight-based desktop
| applicationsâ
|
| As I pointed out earlier, Mr. de Icaza has
| abandonded even the pretense of promoting
| an Open Source development platform and
| seems perfectly content to promote
| Microsoft Silverlight as the new desktop
| ârevolutionâ.
|
| [...]
|
| Letâs not dwell on the foolish and
| transparent attempt to deflect valid
| criticism as hate, but instead letâs look
| closer at his specific defense. Mr. de
| Icaza says he brought up about
| MonoTorrent, a GTK#-based application, but
| he also says he wants Silverlight to
| replace GTK#, and that he simply wants to
| re-implement MonoTorrent in Silverlight.
|
| Thatâs a major problem with Mr. de Icaza.
| He doesnât just want to build on top of
| what exists, he wants to replace what
| exists; replace with closed-source,
| proprietary, non-standard technology!
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/11/the-future-of-moonlight-ii/
de Icaza drools
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| So there you have it, folks. Mr. de Icaza
| speaks for Team Mono in direct support of
| the Microsoft Silverlight âRevolutionâ â
| encouraging development with Closed Source,
| Proprietary Software. People have been
| constantly raising flags that Novell / Mr.
| de Icaza / Team Mono have lost sight of
| Free Software as they grow ever closer to
| Microsoft, and this is a startlingly black
| mark proving warnings come true.
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http://mono-nono.com/2009/11/24/de-icaza-drools/
The Future of Moonlight
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| Miguel de Icaza has spoken on The Future of
| Moonlight, and it is revealing.
|
| We could use Silverlight to build the
| next wave of cross-platform desktop
| applications.
|
| Really? We can use closed-source
| Silverlight to build cross-platform desktop
| applications? Iâve often said that a
| significant side effect of all the Team
| Mono propaganda is promoting Microsoft, and
| statements like this are exactly what I
| mean.
|
| Here we have a clear endorsement for a
| closed-source, proprietary Microsoft
| technology with whom only Novell has any
| sort of âcovenantâ as the future for cross-
| platform development. In what FLOSS circles
| is that an acceptable proposal?
|
| [...]
|
| This also touches on the point I make that
| Team Mono / Moonlight is making no great
| strides for Linux. They spend a ton of
| effort on iPhone, Unity engine, and now PS3
| and Wii? You might recall a long-winded
| apologetic where the argument on how
| beneficial Mono would be to Linux was the
| major selling point. Somewhere along the
| line that whole argument got shifted to how
| beneficial Mono would be to .NET
| developers.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/11/the-future-of-moonlight/
Miguel de Icaza: "We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with
Moonlight"
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| de Icaza: This is a new group inside of Novell. Basically my team grew from
| about 30 to 40 people over the last year and a half. Most of the hires went
| to Moonlight, so now with 15 people working on Moonlight, the biggest part
| are new hires.
|
| [...]
|
| derStandard.at: You talked about re-using Silverlight / Moonlight for the
| desktop, is there already some concrete work happening, or are those still
| just ideas for the future?
|
| de Icaza: We are actually doing that right now, we have a couple of projects.
| Lunar Eclipse is our Silverlight designer for Linux and that is actually
| built entirely as a desktop Silverlight application. The idea is to have both
| a desktop and a web version. We also built Moonlight desklets, which is like
| Apples Dashboard.
|
| I am also trying to convince people that we need to redo certain desktop
| components using Moonlight because we could get a flashier, nicer user
| interface with the designers actually prototyping this interface in Inkscape
| or blender.
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http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216918402134
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