Comments on: Squandering one of the industry's best open source talents [Updated]

Miguel de Icaza can do more.

[pkidza]

Amen to that!

It is about time somebody said this. Gnome has been improving slowly but steadily but I think that with more involvment by Miguel and Nat the speed of improvement could increase. I think that Linux needs to offer something different rather than just trying to match Windows feature for feature.

[mpsayler]

I still am not confortable with this

"For these reasons I can't help but wonder why he's squandering his talents on writing largely irrelevant code (Mono, Moonlight) that appeals to himself, Novell, Microsoft, and no one else."

I wonder why Matt Asay is squandering his talents on writing largly irrelevant blog posts (up to 10 a day!) that appeal to himself, open source advocates, and no one else.

When I read articles like this (though I grant yours is much more even-handed than most of the ones I've seen beating this drum over the last few days), I feel kind of sick inside. If Miguel thinks what he does, and acts like he does, and it makes Miguel happy, who are we to complain? :/

Seriously.

[Matt Asay]

And yet you dutifully read!

God bless you! To think that you painfully slog through these posts that don't matter to you. That's dedication. Or something. ;-)

[mpsayler]

"we do what we must, because we can"

cake, anyone?

[Jonathan Allen]

Out of touch

It is downright amazing how out of touch you are.

> I want the old Miguel (and Nat - where has Nat Friedman been?) back, the one who demo'd Nat's Dashboard with Nat at OSCON. The one who led and pushed GNOME forward for so many years.

The slide deck for OLS explicitly states that Dashboard was written in C#.

http://www.nat.org/dashboard/ols2003/img3.html

[t62748]

Linux desperately needs something like Mono

The current C/C++-based systems are a dead end: they take far too long to develop, they are hard to maintain, they are hard to extend, and they end up having lots of bugs and security holes.

Linux desperately needs something like Mono: an efficient high level language with backwards compatibility with existing libraries. Nothing else fits the bill right now: Python is too slow, Java doesn't have good native bindings, and no other languages seem to be anywhere near the popularity of C#.

Whether C# originally came from Microsoft is really not very relevant; Mono, with its rich set of Linux libraries, is no more "imitating" Microsoft than C++ is.