Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome

Knuckles writes "Austrian newspaper Der Standard continues its recent series of in-depth interviews with free software developers. This time they sat down with Novell's Vice President of Developer Platform, Miguel de Icaza of Gnome and Mono fame. The interview was conducted at GUADEC (GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference). Miguel talks mainly about Mono 2.0 and .Net 3.5 compatibility, enhancing the collaboration with Microsoft over Silverlight ('Moonlight' in Mono), and the larger political situation of Mono and Moonlight. When the interviewer asks whether Moonlight is only validating Silverlight on the web, Miguel gives a quite detailed answer that includes a possibly well-deserved swipe at Mozilla ..."

I LIKE IT!

[Anonymous Coward]

If Miguel De Icaza hates it, I LIKE IT!

Same old...

[jav1231]

Looks like Miguel still pimping a marriage with Microsoft. Dude, she likes country and he likes rock-n-roll! Seafood vs. burger and fries. He's frugal, forward looking and she spends money like a drunken sailor! More importantly he just wants some freedom and she wants to tie him down. Let it go!

Open Microsoft

[dvice_null]

"de Icaza: I hope so. It might end up that at some point Microsoft just open ups .net"

LOL

Re:I just find it's terribly dumb

[TeknoHog]

In another version, "keep your enemies in a small .jar on your desk."

Re:Yay Miguel

[Ed Avis]

No, no sarcasm intended. Mono is excellent.

This reminds me of a movie quote...

[Spy der Mann]

"Bill, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Icazablanca. Coming soon to your local theater.

Re:i just want

[FishWithAHammer]

Oh, right, because Moonlight won't be able to? What about the codec pack Microsoft will release for non-Windows operating systems, for x86, x86_64, and PowerPC alike, specifically and solely for Moonlight?

Why is it that the trolls crawl out from under the bridge whenever Mono comes up?

Re:Open Microsoft

[snoyberg]

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