[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“At first, the rumors seemed irresistible. Miguel de
Icaza, the creator of Mono, the GNU/Linux implementation of .NET,
was saying what free software critics have been saying for years:
the spread of .NET has been handicapped by Microsoft’s restrictive
patent policies.“Then, mysteriously, the SD Times story in which de Icaza is
quoted disappeared from the Internet, preserved only in Google’s
cache. After years of supporting .NET, de Icaza himself now seems
the victim of the conspiracy to ensure that anti-.NET or anti-Mono
stories are censored — or, just as likely, the victim of his own
rashness.“The trouble is, none of this story is true. Or, rather, to be
exact, the article has not disappeared, and de Icaza’s comments are
accurate, but have been taken so wildly out of context that their
intent has been lost.”