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Señor de Icaza Meets Other Microsoft MVPs

Summary: José, Miguel, and other boosters of Microsoft Corporation have a get-together at the company's annual event

IT'S this time of the year again. Microsoft Mix 2010 is on, so it's time for Novell's VP (who is behind Mono and Moonlight) to mingle with some other Microsoft boosters (like José Antônio Farias) and speak about some ideas for promoting failed products like Xbox. Yes, for those who missed the news, Novell is now helping Xbox 360 [1, 2]. How pathetic and predictable. It's worth mentioning this scoop from the same event (regarding Microsoft's failed mobile business): "Win phone 7 marketplace can automatically revoke apps - delete them from your device! #mix10" (originally from a Microsoft booster).



We have just found this video of Miguel de Icaza speaking to Microsoft colleagues/MVPs at Microsoft's Mix 2010. Sadly, it's in Spanish. Can anyone please provide a translation?



Novell's other .NET people compare Ruby and C#, probably looking for justifications to support and promote Mono (and by extension .NET). Novell does the same thing by belittling Java. This newer post is less about belittling Ruby but perhaps about luring in Ruby developers so that they consider moving to .NET. It's a bit speculative though.

“This newer post is less about belittling Ruby but perhaps about luring in Ruby developers so that they consider moving to .NET.”According to another new post, Evolution's Mono extensions (or "plugins") make people think. The SUSE/Novell camp denies everything using special words like "conspiracy" [1, 2]. From the opening: "Someone, who probably has no idea of what it takes to maintain a large codebase, suggested that Canonical/Ubuntu should fork Evolution. He also sensed a non-existing Microsoft conspiracy. These days we seem to hear more about conspiracies by evil corporations than about technology/user-needs ;-)"

Of all companies, Canonical is probably the least likely to fork Evolution, which is Novell's own product by the way. If there is a distribution that truly dodges Mono and even maintains Gnote, it is Fedora (Red Hat). No former Microsoft employees and Microsoft MVPs appear to have occupied that project. The same cannot be said about Canonical, which hired from Microsoft and Novell and has former Microsoft employees making suggestions to its developers (we would rather not name the people, but they do exist).

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