Re: Miguel de Icaza is a great coder, and will always be so
Your name shows up as "Anonymous Coward". Mine shows up as "Damon Lynch". My code is all online, all Linux desktop related, and under the GPL - and yours?
Your "facts" about Microsoft include the claim that it is "one of the most freedom-hating corporations in existence". More freedom-hating than Monsanto? Blackwater/Academi? Koch Industries? Saudi Aramco? Freeport McMoRan? De Beers? What indicators of freedom are you using to compare? Do you have good knowledge of the history of these companies, what they do and how they go about it? If not, can you reference a study by experts in the area?
I myself greatly dislike some Microsoft business practices, but I try not to go around making stuff up about them. That's just dumb.
I don't go around spreading hatred towards individual coders, for many reasons. How many de Icaza haters here know that the full-time maintainer of an important free software project, exiv2, used to work for Adobe, and now works on exiv2 in his retirement? If the Adobe employee been the object of hatred directed at him by members of the FOSS community, do you think he'd have taken up the exiv2 role?
The hate exhibited here towards de Icaza and others harms the free software movement. Period.