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A Journey Into the Dumb-o-Sphere
Oct 5, 2007, 19 :00 UTC (14 Talkback[s]) (6746 reads)

(Other stories by Miguel de Icaza)

"It did not take long for the IT pundits to declare that having the source code available for .NET is either 'a trap for Mono,' 'the end of Mono' or some similarly low accuracy per bit arguments.

"It is amazing though, as some of these pundits are supposed to be covering 'free software' and 'open source' and yet, they know very little about history and how open source software is actually developed. More worrying is the fact that they could have researched this instead of sticking their foot in their mouth..."

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...I quote section 2.1 of the GNU Standa ...   You are hardly un-biased.   
Brandioch Conner
Oct 5, 2007, 19:29:27
 
And yet the infamous Miguel de Icaza doe ...   So much ranting and so little reason   
judecn
Oct 5, 2007, 20:37:12
 
But maybe I won't bother clicking to ...   At least the title is accurate   
Rufus Polson
Oct 5, 2007, 23:27:45
 
I've always liked KDE more than Gnom ...   What going on with Miguel   
Damjan
Oct 5, 2007, 23:49:01
 
You are absolutely right. In fact, that  ...   Re: So much ranting and so little reason   
Pietro Pesci Feltri
Oct 5, 2007, 23:55:14
 
Helping spread mono helps the wrong peop ...   MS wants your GPL contributions   
Jose_x
Oct 6, 2007, 00:54:24
 
>> This makes it more likely that Micros ...   Steal is a strong word   
Jose_x
Oct 6, 2007, 01:07:38
 
He called a lot of people a lot of named ...   I am sorry but Miguel convinced me of nothing   
Jeff Cobb
Oct 6, 2007, 06:27:36
 
 He called a lot of people a lot of name ...   Re: I am sorry but Miguel convinced me of nothing   
jp
Oct 6, 2007, 07:09:29
 
They (Microsoft) have done it before, be ...   Re: steal is a strong word   
Gary Stewart
Oct 6, 2007, 07:12:46
 
M$ only have to keep the MONO team (all  ...   A battle on two fronts, perhaps more.   
D Forshaw
Oct 6, 2007, 14:19:11
 
...and was acquitted in criminal court b ...   O.J. pleaded innocent, too...   
cjm
Oct 6, 2007, 14:49:22
 
When Sun first introduced Java they want ...   Java and .Net   
Steve Stites
Oct 6, 2007, 18:56:21
 
> M$ only have to keep the MONO team (al ...   Re: A battle on two fronts, perhaps more.   
damijan
Oct 7, 2007, 09:45:57
 
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