I must confess that I don't like Miguel de Icaza , a man who has had his merits for many works/projects he has developed, but who on the other hand, for me (and mind you that this is my opinion) , loses a lot because of his double standards.
I don't know him at all, only what I've read and what's publicly known. Let's look at some of Miguel de Icaza 's most relevant projects , citing Wikipedia:
His contributions include the founding of the GNOME project, the Midnight Commander file manager , Gnumeric , the Bonobo component model , and the Mono platform …
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He is currently the Vice President of Development at Novell (the American company that acquired his company in 2003 ) and leads the Mono project , in addition to participating in multiple conferences to promote or disseminate free software internationally.
So far, so good, except for two things: MONO , which I don't quite like, and quoting Wikipedia again:
His reputation as a programmer earned him an all-expenses-paid trip to Microsoft 's offices for a job interview, which he used to preach the advantages of free software to the company that makes Windows.
What I want to highlight is not the fact that he wanted to work for Microsoft under the guise of promoting and preaching about Free Software, but the simple fact that how can a man who has been so relevant to the Open Source Community, who claims to speak highly of Free Software, and who is also the creator of one of the most popular Desktop Environments, now say that the OS X Desktop has killed GNU/Linux desktops?
I repeat, I don't know him at all, but he has always given me the impression of being a rich kid who secretly adores Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, while trying to show that he loves Free Software.
He says he likes the change that Gnome has undergone , and although I somewhat agree that there is sometimes too much fragmentation among desktop projects and developers in GNU/Linux , I completely disagree that OS X has killed/eliminated the GNU/Linux desktop.
I've seen and read many posts discussing the accessibility of GNU/Linux desktops compared to Windows and macOS , and none have yet convinced me that the latter two are better; quite the opposite, in fact. I understand that macOS is highly customizable, but it doesn't reach the level of detail achieved with KDE , for example.
Perhaps I misunderstood all of this; perhaps, since I'm not an expert in English, I didn't grasp the idea of ​​Icaza 's article , but I'll stick with the last sentence he wrote in it:
That day I stopped feeling guilty about my new found love for OSX.