Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article

Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by simplegeek on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:50AM (#864234)

Who is Migheul de Icaza? I mean, pardon my ignorance, why what he says is important?

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by andreyf on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:55AM (#864246)

Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by simplegeek on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:17AM (#864310)

Thanks. Many apologies, I had no clue ;(

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by dagw on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:59AM (#864266)

Basically he's a guy that's responsible for some quite big open source software projects (GNOME,gnumeric,mono) used by quite a lot of people.

He has also received the Free Software Foundation award for the Advancement of Free Software, which is why it is kind of a big deal when RMS turns around and calls him a traitor.

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by viraptor on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:56AM (#864252)

He started gnome and mono projects, created ximian (now part of novell). IMHO that classifies him as important.

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by moron4hire on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:48AM (#864413)

In the great conversation-that-is-the-internet, why is what anyone says not important, merely for a lack of notoriety?

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by theycallmemorty on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @12:42PM (#864555)

Well the thread title seems to imply that this is someone we should care about.

"Migheul de Icaza responds to..." vs. "A response to..."

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by moron4hire on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @02:12PM (#864796)

This isn't just some schmoe replying to the GNU Manifesto. This is a person replying to comments made about him by Richard Stallman. So it's not "a response to...", it is "the response to..."

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