On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 03:57:12PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote: > > Is Miguel De Icaza an "ex" open source evangelist? As far as I know he's > working at the NET Foundation on open source projects (or so it says on > Wikipedia). Xamarin is open source right now. It's a key part of > Microsoft's cross-platform developer story and it's open source, it's > being developed by Microsoft, and it's being promoted by Microsoft. As > far as I can see, Miguel De Icaza is still very much an open source > evangelist, despite working (indirectly) for Microsoft. Just because > it's Microsoft doesn't mean it's somehow not open source.
Yes, he is an ex open-source evangelist. As 40% of the GUI Linux developers, who write for GNOME and use only MacOS. But that's another story. > > I understand what you mean about avoiding a rabid dog but Ballmer's long > gone. ;-) > But Microsoft is still there. So the rabid dog has not gone anywhere. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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