Miguel de Icaza wants a Windows strategy inside GNU/Linux

Wikipedia image modified for humourous purposes (this Wikipedia article about Miguel de Icaza says that "[i]"n summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team")

Summary: More news about the Trojan horses that are Mono and Moonlight, more lies from the Mono team are outlined, and a warning about what Miguel de Icaza and his minions are doing to GNU/Linux

APPENDED below is a chat log from 8-9 hours ago (we cannot verify some of the claims made there). While I was asleep somebody called "jjabraham" told us that Canonical's altercations with Mono seem to be escalating. It is said that the public record is insufficient because the only Web links we got about it are from OMG!Ubuntu! (Mono sympathiser) and the Mono Lobby, as one author called it after we had used/coined the term.

From OMG!Ubuntu!:

With Banshee selected as Ubuntu 11.04′s default music player one question has been circling our minds: will there be two music stores enabled by default, or just one? And if one – which one?

From a Banshee developer, who ought to know that Banshee is a patent trap:

The Banshee maintainers and community have been proud to support GNOME by sending 100% of our FOSS Amazon MP3 store's affiliate revenue to the Foundation.

[...]

After choosing Banshee as the next default player in Ubuntu, Canonical approached us, concerned with how our Amazon store would affect their Ubuntu One store.

Mono inside GNU/Linux is like Elop inside Nokia or Microsoft Florian pretending to speak for "FOSS". It is a Trojan horse, accompanied by even bigger Trojan horses like Moonlight with the MPEG cartel's own Trojan horses inside it. Novell's and Microsoft's MVP Miguel de Icaza, who loves the Nokia-Microsoft deal by the way, keeps mimicking dead products like Silver Lie, trying to still give them a boost inside GNU/Linux! Miguel de Icaza too is like an Elop inside GNU/Linux and he deserves to be ostracised for the damage he keeps doing to software freedom. Dr. Richard Stallman has called Miguel de Icaza "a traitor to the Free software community" and quite rightly so based on the continued behaviour of this Trojan horse. De Icaza and his minions used to curse and defame critics -- yours truly included -- for saying that Moonlight would bring Mono to computers via Web-imposed dependencies. They used to deny the Mono dependency, but they lied. That's right, they lied, as usual. In fact, the homepage of Moonlight is right inside the Mono site, which only proves the Mono lobby to be a group of liars, to whom saying lies in order to help their Microsoft agenda would seem acceptable.

If there is anything to learn from the imminent death of Nokia [1, 2, 3, 4] it's that Miguel de Icaza should be forcibly removed from GNU/Linux like Elop should have been removed from Nokia on the same day he entered the company, given Ballmer's own blessings which were posted in Microsoft.com. ⬆

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jjabraham	did you guys see mono devs attacking canonical earlier today?	Feb 16 00:50
jjabraham	some fight about banshee and canonical	Feb 16 00:51
jjabraham	schestowitz?	Feb 16 00:52
DaemonFC	half of Ubuntu Desktop is mono-related in 11.04	Feb 16 00:52
DaemonFC	the other half is a bastard fork of GNOME that's broken	Feb 16 00:53
DaemonFC	Kubuntu has survived this unscathed	Feb 16 00:53
jjabraham	we can hope that canonical has now seen the true side of mono boosters	Feb 16 00:54
jjabraham	after they were attacked	Feb 16 00:55
jjabraham	and will now drop banshee like the black plague that it is	Feb 16 00:55
-TRIdentica/#techrights-[rsandu/@rsandu] Emisia programelor Deutsche Welle, bruiată intenà £ionat http://is.gd/7blpKY		Feb 16 00:55
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DaemonFC	I guess I have Ubuntu to thank for trying out KDE 4.x again	Feb 16 00:56
DaemonFC	I would have kept using GNOME if they hadn't managed to ruin their implementation of it	Feb 16 00:56
jjabraham	don't know too much about what happened between mono / canonical	Feb 16 00:58
jjabraham	just heard there was some fight or another	Feb 16 00:58
DaemonFC	well, free ATI drivers have hit a snag	Feb 16 00:58
jjabraham	about money (who'd a guessed?)	Feb 16 00:58
-TRIdentica/#techrights-[rsandu/@rsandu] How to crash the Internet http://is.gd/Qyqp6g		Feb 16 00:58
-TRIdentica/#techrights-[satipera/@satipera] German takeover of the New York Stock Exchange http://is.gd/asXOLJ #casinonews		Feb 16 00:58
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DaemonFC	now you need a patent-encumbered library for s3 texture compression support	Feb 16 00:59
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DaemonFC	and if you don't provide it, a lot of games will just crash	Feb 16 00:59
jjabraham	that sucks	Feb 16 00:59
DaemonFC	glad I'm in the US, now I can add s3tc support to my list of batteries not included	Feb 16 01:00
DaemonFC	:)	Feb 16 01:00
jjabraham	anywho, came to techrights.org tonight to see if schestowitz had mentioned the banshee/canonical fight	Feb 16 01:00
jjabraham	so I could read up on it	Feb 16 01:00
jjabraham	but no mention	Feb 16 01:00
DaemonFC	is there a link?	Feb 16 01:00
jjabraham	will have to ask around tomorrow to find out what happened	Feb 16 01:01
jjabraham	no, don't have a link	Feb 16 01:01
jjabraham	I was linked to a few twitter messages earlier by a coworker	Feb 16 01:02
jjabraham	but I didn't get the full story	Feb 16 01:02
-TRIdentica/#techrights-[opensourceway/@opensourceway] Don't hesitate | http://bit.ly/hYlOHV #oywf		Feb 16 01:02
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jjabraham	just enough to see there was a fight	Feb 16 01:02
jjabraham	mono devs being greedy, etc	Feb 16 01:02
-TRIdentica/#techrights-[rsandu/@rsandu] ♺ @EuroDroid: Google: Android activations up to 350,000 a day - http://bit.ly/dPS0tT		Feb 16 01:03
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jjabraham	ah, looks like it was related to some music store	Feb 16 01:05
jjabraham	http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/banshee-to-ship-with-ubuntu-music-store-in-ubuntu-11-04/ has a very vague summary	Feb 16 01:06
TechrightsBot-tr	Title: Banshee to ship with Ubuntu Music Store in Ubuntu 11.04 .::. Size~: 95.3 KB	Feb 16 01:06
jjabraham	http://gburt.blogspot.com/2011/02/banshee-supporting-gnome-on-ubuntu.html has more	Feb 16 01:07
TechrightsBot-tr	Title: Gabriel Burt's Blog: Banshee Supporting GNOME on Ubuntu .::. Size~: 61.66 KB	Feb 16 01:07
jjabraham	ok, well time for dinner	Feb 16 01:08
jjabraham	night	Feb 16 01:08
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