Amid drama at .NET Foundation, Microsoft's De Icaza reveals it was meant to be like GNOME Foundation

The troubled .NET Foundation was intended to "borrow as much as possible from the GNOME Foundation," according to Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of GNOME and now at Microsoft, who was involved in its original design. De Icaza's remarks were triggered by a post from Reed Copsey, president of earth science research company C Tech …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Go on then

Explain the el'reg joke about why the pic is a horse in sheep's clothing ?

(hoping it's more than Miquel is Mexican and that's a vaguely S.American animal)

[Excellentsword]

Re: Go on then

It's a "drama llama"

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Go on then

You might want to get this ->

[cantankerous swineherd]

Miguel de Icaza is a tool

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

>Miguel de Icaza is a tool

On a software site I think that statement may be a little ambiguous

[Snake]

Silly / stupid human politics

You can personally choose your description, silly or stupid, but it always seems to be the reason why we can never have anything nice any more.

Regardless, as I said previously, it is apparently time to leave. If you do not see a benefit then it is time to stop with the buckets and simply walk off the ship.

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's truly Open Source ...

... then can't it just be forked and a non-M$ controlled branch be set up?

[steelpillow]

Re: If it's truly Open Source ...

Sorry, the answer to that question is in a closed-source document.

[PriorKnowledge]

We already have one

It is called Mono

[Ross 12]

I think what's needed is

a foundation of foundations founded by successful foundations to found new foundations and help all the other foundations to run themselves and behave the way the foundations were founded to

[Kane]

Re: I think what's needed is

"a foundation of foundations founded by successful foundations to found new foundations and help all the other foundations to run themselves and behave the way the foundations were founded to"

Yo Dawg, I heard you like foundations, so I put a foundation in your foundation so you can found a foundation while you found a foundation.

[cyberdemon]

Says the director of the F# Foundation

F### this

[Claverhouse]

Bad Faith

I always assumed Mr. de Icaza was a Trojan Gnome there to wreck Linux.

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Apart from the frightful Gnome, which as I indicated before, has many interferences in KDE even, and is dedicated to the Art of the Fugly; he never seemed pleased with Linux in any way; and if I recall correctly --- it was many years ago --- he buggered off proclaiming the superiorities of Apple, then found a home with the mother-ship.