Posts Tagged Mono
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 [...]
Matt Zimmerman on Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft on April 20, 2010
Interesting interview with Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO: UT: Richard M. Stallman had criticized Miguel de Icaza for his participation to Open Source Lab which has been founded by Microsoft. What do you think about that? And in the context of this subject how do you evaluate Mono Project. MZ: Miguel and I have met, but [...]
Celebrating Apple’s Rules?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on April 12, 2010
Every once in a while I get rational correspondence taking me to task on something I’ve said. I sincerely appreciate hearing criticism, because I loathe the “echo chamber” effect and welcome the challenge of strengthening my arguments. So I was quite happy to receive an email that contained the following: [W]hen I read your new note, it almost [...]
Apple puts the smackdown on MonoTouch
… And quite a few other psuedo-platforms From the Apple 4.0 SDK (beta): 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, [...]
Another win for best of breed software in Ubuntu
Blast from the Past This is just something I think is funny.
The H On Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 19, 2010
The H Open has a new article up, “Health Check: Moonlight“. Although it is a high-level overview/summary-style piece, let me point out a few things I found interesting. de Icaza is an enthusiast and long term advocate of Microsoft technologies…. Say it ain’t so! Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza once took great exception to be [...]
The Future of Moonlight
Miguel de Icaza has spoken on The Future of Moonlight, and it is revealing. We could use Silverlight to build the next wave of cross-platform desktop applications. Really? We can use closed-source Silverlight to build cross-platform desktop applications? I’ve often said that a significant side effect of all the Team Mono propaganda is promoting Microsoft, [...]
Recent Comments