Posts Tagged Miguel de Icaza

de Icaza: “We collaborate with Microsoft”

Visual Studio Magazine, of the Redmond Developer Network, has up a short interview with Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza. There’s not much to see here, but I think some minor points shine through  despite Mr. de Icaza’s best efforts. Consider the recent “busted myth” that Microsoft is involved in Mono development (which even in the myth-buster piece [...]

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Team Apologista Springs into Action!

This is just a funny bit, nothing serious. So, Miguel de Icaza posts that the Ubuntu StackOverflow should really be a Linux StackOverflow and watch Team Apologista rally! A funny (and quickly downvoted comment): This looks like a useful idea. But why is Miguel so interested in it? What does it have to do with Microsoft? Heh. [...]

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Calls for a return to Browser Balkanization

A Brief Preface Let me state up front one of the reasons I hate Twitter is because it is so ill-suited for any real communication. There are a very limited number of things Twitter works well for, but explaining an idea with any nuance is certainly not among them. I hate to read too much [...]

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My Theory: What you don’t say says a lot

Miguel de Icaza has offered up two theories on Apple’s recent change preventing non-Apple toolchain development: Theory 1: The Business Case Here, Mr. de Icaza argues that Flash’s “killer feature” is that the same code that ran on the iPhone could run on other devices, and therefore hurt Apple’s dominant position in the market. Under [...]

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A Deep Divide

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of Linux Foundation, as quoted by LinuxPlanet on Apr 15, 2010: Could Google be the company they are today if they were written on [Microsoft's] .NET? Could Facebook? The answer is no, you need an open platform that you can own yourself, modify, customize and scale. Miguel de Icaza, on his [...]

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The Disappearing Article Mystery Solved?

Now that there is some explanation out there, we can examine two interesting aspects to the Disappearing Article Mystery. Be warned: this will be long and ranty. Aspect the First: The Disappearance The “disappearance” is explained by Mr. Worthington (the article author) on Twitter as so: on my recent .net evolution stories – nothing was pulled. they [...]

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The Product of My Research

Just something I ran across trying to research the Disappearing Article Mystery: http://twitter.com/tuhl/status/10690157612 Short meeting with Jeremy Allison was cool – #osbc #samba #google http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/10691469526 @tuhl Shame that he has turned into a fear monger, hating, conspiracy theorist Stay classy, San Diego.

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