Miguel feels that it's not a big deal if OOXML becomes an officially blessed international standard.
I beg to differ: our technology choices have fundamental social implications that we would be negligent to ignore.
(Does linking to two slashdot comments make this my lamest blog entry ever or what? ;)
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Who the Hollyoaks Omnibus is this Miguel?
IIRC he's the founder of Gnome...
Miguel is a Microsoft Spy/Infiltrate
007 with license to bloat
Miguel is one of the founders of the GNOME project, lead dev on the Mono project, CTO at Novell and a long term member of the free software community (midnight commander, gnumeric..) and recipient of many awards over the years including the FSF's version of "person of the year" back in '99 (iirc it was 99; i could be wrong on the year and couldn't be bothered to look it up ;).
as such, he's looked up to by many individuals and people listen when he speaks.
Most of what I have heard about him is negative, not positive. That aside, his endeavors lead me to believe that, even if he's not a spy, he loves the MS Kool-aid.
In other words:
He is gnome's Aron J. Seigo
I read your comments on slashdot just a bit ago. Spot-on.
Great post.
You should also mention the same applies to proprietary formats in music and movies even more today with all the DRM crap (although most is also available in other formats - some illegally).
It's really crime all the err-culture that is lost as a result of either "evil" intentions, just long term greed or ignorance. There should be some kind of Free Culture Foundation to force stuff to be open. In my case I really miss some great 80's games that no longer work or can't find... if only they were made open source...
Small correction: Miguel is the VP of Developer Platforms at Novell, Jeff Jaffe is their CTO.
@Brad: woops! you're right.. my mistake; thanks for the correction =)
Wikipedia says this about Miguel:
"In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team (to work on a SPARC port), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work H-1B visa."
Well, guessing from the trajectory of his personal evolution, his statements, his software development projects... Wikipedia is wrong on this one:
He indeed got the MS gig -- he just keeps telling us otherwise. :->>
Aaron,
I managed to read the majority of the comments at /. and yours truly articulated the problem. Not really sure what Miguel’s motives are.
Having moderated on slashdot, I found it annoying that I wanted to comment aswell. I am glad you mentioned it here aswell :)
LOL
Holy mackerel.
I did read your comment, did agree, but didn't know it was you ;-)
Hehe same for me as for superstoned, I too thought: finally somebody who knows how to put this into words and make it sound somehow reasonable and then I come here and read it's you :-)
Of course Miguel probably won't care, he seems to have grown away from the FL-part of FLOSS towards the O-part. Which is weird if you think that one of the reasons for founding GNOME was that they didn't think Qt was free enough.
Miguel de Icaza hash sold his soul a long time ago. I don't trust him for many reasons, and you all shouldn't trust him either.
I guess Miguel is still a Microsoft wannabe.
That was definitely one of the best responses at slashdot. If only I had mod points.
I also admire the way you've replied respectfully, avoided direct attacks, negativity or hard judgments towards Miguels actions. :) And again I notice that in your replies here when describing Miguel. This really amazes me in a positive way. Great job! :)
Well, I happened to be the one who submitted the Slashdot story. Although I'm sad over the amount of inappropriate words poured into many comments, the whole discussion has asserted my believes that Novell now is actively sabotaging the Free Software revolution at many levels and I started noticing so many new points in the topic.
Sincerely,
The GNU Wing in Egypt and The Levant.
(PS I also happen to be a big KDE/Plamsa fan ;) )
** beliefs
But everybody knows that Icaza dream is be a Gates partner or at least one of his workers. See how much damage cause his words, not only to confuse people, also destroy all the work to create really open technologies
Yeah it is quite lame, but the fact you are right compesates it:)
Icaza sucks!
Aaron, those are the kind of posts I really like and the reason why I always read your blog despite not using KDE that much at present.
Why not OOXML!!! I like this standard!
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