RMS is now cool again
Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pmThe conversation shifted towards Microsoft’s new Open Source labs, and in response to a question by Owens, Stallman noted that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the Free Software community”. He also added that De Icaza is a Microsoft apologist, hence his involvement in the new Open Source labs does not inspire confidence.
I take back what I said about RMS earlier, he does, in fact, understand Mono and anything related to C#/.Net is unwanted in FOSS-land.
Also, why is Thom Holwerda shilling for Microsoft so hard? The rest of the article is almost unreadable there.
RMS is king… and I think Linus Torvalds would probably secretly agree with him about Miguel de Izaca, based on what Torvalds has said about the GNOME project.
Nice blog. Nice to find a Linux user who’s not part of this whole movement to use Ubuntu. I used Debian for about 2 years and got suckered into upgrading to 10.04 — mostly because it seemed that binaries were easier to find in Ubuntu. Now I’m sorta stuck with it because I’d hate to do a fresh install without backing up my data. Which brings me to my next topic…
Thanks for the info about DVD+Rs… I’ve spent a month wondering what the hell was wrong with my machine. I read halfway down your article and came to where you said that Indian DVD+Rs were not trustworthy. Not only are they not trustworthy, they simply don’t do anything when you put them in the drive. They don’t load or spin, and when they pretend to write, they don’t write either.
Maybe an ‘antichrist Debian’ distro (or even a Subgenius distro) could be a funny way to comment on the whole Ubuntu CE thing.