Novell is “Impressed” by Miguel de Icaza... Well, So is Microsoft
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-04-16 09:55:33 UTC
- Modified: 2009-04-16 09:55:33 UTC
"There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to Novell customers."
--Bob Muglia, Microsoft President
Just found
in the blog of Novell's technical chief:
We’re continually impressed by Miguel de Icaza and the entire Mono community—to see how quickly they add Mono features. It has reached the level of maturity that we are supporting SLE Mono Extension as an innovative, supported version of Mono.
Well, isn't that just lovely?
"I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue"
--Robert Scoble, former Microsoft evangelist
Comments
Jose_X
2009-04-17 04:44:56
They need their "standards" to spread. It's much easier and more convincing for Microsoft to shut out competitors if a large part of popular FOSS was written in mono and worked on Windows. This way Microsoft (occasionally with Novell) could win contracts of 100% Microsoft solutions where only they can provide the proprietary monopoly bits but offer some level of adequate enough support (or hope) to customers wanting an escape plan to FOSS.
.. Oh, and the unethical unconstitutional patents make their task all the easier. Microsoft supports patent use against FOSS so will support the system and will fight vigorously against patents used against them.
When we strengthen Microsoft "standards", we help kill off real Linux companies and products, helping to put the ball in Microsoft's court and into "FOSS" related companies likely run by ex-softies.
It's sad to see Novell apparently tie their fate to Microsoft's success and whims, all the while knowing they are screwing over community FOSS.
Novell, feared FOSS competition so much and held so little hope for their own technology that it decided to dedicate their company to helping Microsoft put FOSS on a leash.
On a saner note http://www.parrot.org/ and QtCreator have reached some milestones.