Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly
slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project, which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.
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Member since:2007-02-05
I really really respect Miguel. Although he is an idealist he is also practical. He wants good tech just as much as he wants ideology(freedom).
Futhermore he never seems to have allready choses sides on anything. He always considers and he sees good and bad on both sides. *As is it (obviously) really is*
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Nope.
IMHO you have to be pro-MS to say OOXML is a superb standard ( Cause the 6000 page blob riden monster obviously isnt! )
http://groups.google.com/group/tiraniaorg-blog-comments/browse_thre...
Member since:2005-07-24
Miguel seems to have a peculiar bug in his firmware which might be expressed as:
while True:
>>if provider == microsoft:
>>>>technology.category = "cool"
>>>>implement_for_linux(technology)
>>>>claim(NO_LEGAL_PROBLEMS, technology)
>>>>set_warnings(off)
>>>>ignore(signals, ALL)
('twould be nice if we had [code][/code] tags.)
Edited 2008-03-08 00:02 UTC
Member since:2006-02-05
if you read his full reasoning on it here http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html, you will see that his opinion on OOXML is well reasoned, and coming from his position as the creator of the most used spreadsheet in the free software world, not as the VP of a company which has partnered with MS.
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I'm not entirely sure who you've got him mixed up with. For good or for bad, and people can come up with all the conspiracy theories they like, he has always had a puzzling and burning admiration for what Microsoft comes up with. Whether it be Gnumeric and Excel, Mono and .Net or support for OOXML, he is anything but objective. His bizarre support for OOXML was widely discredited, and around the time Mono was created he even started regurgitating a lot of Microsoft marketing material on .Net, such as ASP.Net being used to write 80% less code than anything else.
It just appears that Miguel is now backtracking somewhat, and if you read the debate:
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/030608-mix-novells-de-icaza-cri...
A lot of it looks quite painful and difficult to reconcile. He even comes up with this gem:
Owning end users? That's not really a logical response to..........anything.
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2005-06-28
He is not "pro" anything. He always tries to be objective, so he sees things from afar, rather than getting all psyched with his own position, or OSS' position, or Microsoft's position. This is why I like Miguel.