de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" 615
you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context writes "A blogger on KDE Developer's Journal has found an interesting post by Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and Mono, in a Google group dedicated to the discussion of his blog entries. Six days ago Miguel stated that 'OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it.' In the same post he says that to avoid patent problems over Silverlight, when using or developing Mono's implementation (known as Moonlight), i's best to 'get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include patent coverage.'"
Good morning, people. (Score:5, Funny)
ROXXXX-annne (Score:5, Funny)
He's right... (Score:3, Funny)
There is good in him! (Score:5, Funny)
-Because, there is good in him. I've felt it. He won't turn us over to the Emperor. I can save him. I can turn him back to the good side. I have to try.
Re:Riiiiiiiiight.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Miguel's just doing what's best for himself... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good morning, people. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Miguel's just doing what's best for himself... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First things first. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ROXXXX-annne (Score:3, Funny)
Foes of Miguel de Icaza (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to have to say that yes, yes it is. Although it may be somewhat sensationalized, the man DOES own a Zune. I repeat, Miguel de Icaza owns a Zune [slashdot.org]! If that isn't worthy of a pointless Slashdot flamewar, or at least a paddling, I don't know what is.
Re:OOXML. (Score:5, Funny)
Ladies and gentlemen, the Novell Vice President...
We need an intervention. (Score:5, Funny)
Then it was Mono. We've had slashdot stories on Miguel's pleas for Microsoft to please not constantly break compatibility to push people towards their implementation.
Now this.
Miguel, we care about you very much, and you need to understand that Microsoft doesn't love you. Microsoft will never feel about you the way you feel about Microsoft. Your pure heart is not enough to suddenly make Microsoft embrace any kind of genuine open standard. Microsoft has never had any goal but the ruthless elimination of any possible competition, and all you're doing is enabling the abuse.
You need to stop, and you need to walk away. You need to get into therapy, and start thinking about what's good for you, and what's good for the people who care about you.
Microsoft will never love you. They will not adopt open standards to make you happy. They will not try to make interoperation with you better. They will occasionally say just enough to string you along and make you write thousands of lines of ugly, bloated, crappy code in servile imitation of their unholy crap, but they will never actually care for you.
It's not gonna happen.
Look, face it: Bill Gates appears to be happily married. It was never meant to be. Just move on, and for the love of God, stop shipping multi-megabyte "frameworks".
Secretly Working Where? (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, he really did get the gig at MS -- he just told the rest of us otherwise.
Re:Always been a MS Shill (Score:2, Funny)
I thought with Qt going into GPL Gnome reached version 3 and isnt able to login anymore, because the user dont has to anymore? I thought Gtk vs. Qt is over... and we all know what won?
From all the stuff Miguel made, Mono is the only one I really appreciate however. We have to face it: we need ppl implementing MS stuff, or we can't implement all those funny tags in OOXML
Re:Always been a MS Shill (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good morning, people. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Always been a MS Shill (Score:3, Funny)
A little ryme (Score:0, Funny)
Who happened to mate with a Gnu
The son come out well
Got work at Novell
And praised Microsoft all way through
Re:Always been a MS Shill (Score:3, Funny)