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Auteur: KatolaZ
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Sujet: Re: [DNG] [OT] Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub
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

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