The Mono Mystery That Wasn't

jammag writes "It was shocking news, or so it seemed: Miguel de Icaza, the Mono creator, was switching his opinion about his life's work — he now seemed to agree with the free software partisans who oppose his Mono work and his Microsoft connections. The story flamed across the Internet and even got picked up on Slashdot. But Bruce Byfield reports that 'De Icaza has not changed his opinions.' De Icaza calls the rumors 'a storm in a teacup.' Tracing the misinformation trail, Byfield concludes that 'the FOSS community excels at communication. However, in this instance, that ability was used irresponsibly.'"

Inflamatory headling superceeds mundane content?

[RingDev]

Inflammatory headline supersedes mundane content? Say it ain't so!

-Rick

Lets get more rumors started.

[gad_zuki!]

Didnt you hear? Stallman converted to scientology and Linus is accepting patches from NAMBLA!! Oh and the EFF finally released its spec for its homegrown DRM scheme.

Re:Lets get more rumors started.

[santax]

Why drag the North American Marlin Brando Look ALikes into this?

Re:Inflamatory headling superceeds mundane content

[mrsteveman1]

What's the difference between Mono and .NET? How does the liberated open source software community connect to these standards? Where does De Icaza fit in the puzzle?

For this and more, tune in next week for another exciting chapter of "As The Monopoly Turns"

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Re:Inflamatory headling superceeds mundane content

[nschubach]

The slash however is a slippery slope.

Re:Inflamatory headling superceeds mundane content

[Timothy Brownawell]

IIRC Wikipedia also says you can only write about things you don't actually have any real knowledge of, because learning about something necessarily means you acquire some biases about it. Slashdot can be pretty dumb at times, but I don't think we're quite that bad. Yet.

Re:Who cares about core libraries?

[westyvw]

And it shows.