cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50292160
🐧🇲🇽 ¿Sabían que GNOME es Mexicanx?
It was started by a Mexican guy (Miguel de Icaza) who eventually went to work for Microsoft, oops.
Miguel also developed Xamarin and Mono (his company was acquired by Microsoft).
RMS labeled him as “Traitor to the Free Software Community” which has to be some kind of badge of honor, lol
He’s also an egotistical dick who will do anything to try and “prove” he’s right. And the initial reason I personally stopped using gnome.
A dime a dozen in FOSS it seems.
Eh, I’d say thats mostly just the ones you hear about. There are some amazing, humble, brilliant folks in FOSS that no one notices because they just don’t generate the kind of drama that gets attention.
My comment is mostly a reflection of people who are not project maintainers. FOSS users are known to be insufferable bunch. We tend to want to crucify people who are trying something different (just see the comments in this thread, for example). The ”community” is toxic, as the kids say.
Wow someone in charge of a fairly big project who is a dick. Stop the presses.
Eh, there are different kinds.
Miguel fit into the “pretty much just a dick” territory. Won’t admit to mistakes or underlying issues, just talks about himself and how great he is to deflect criticism.
Federico is pretty awesome though.
Edit: If you weren’t aware, Miguel also declared Linux was dead and moved to MacOS.
He’s been pretty much a jackass for decades, his technical contributions and capability dont really change that.
why does it seem like it’s a requirement for such projects?!
Would you rather be a traitor with a life or some guy who was a good programmer in the 90s but spiraled into someone who eats fungi from his foot?
Not really into fungi or old free software fogies so I guess I’d have to go with traitor.
and Federico Mena, both have cool contributions to libre software.
I assume Microsoft hired that guy, because they started to be more towards Open Source and Linux.
In February 2016, Xamarin announced being acquired by Microsoft.[14] One month later at the Microsoft Build conference, it was announced that the Mono Project would be relicensed to MIT, Visual Studio would include Xamarin (even the free versions) without restrictions, and Xamarin SDKs would be opensourced.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#GNOME,_Ximian,_Xamarin_and_Mono
Fuck, now I can’t hate on GNOME anymore.
the gnome foundation, however, is a u.s. organization, based in california.
Icaza is a MS drone. That may explain why Gnome Project is so stubborn.
Miguel is out of GNOME for many years.
The Gnomisms remain.
They put the foot down.
Bonjour hermano
