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Original Post: Miguel de Icaza ApacheCon Keynote
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I was just in the ApacheCon keynote with Miguel de Icaza. He walked through a history of his world, showing information on GNOME and Mono.
He went into some detail on the WHY certain decisions were made.
Although I don't agree with everything he does (e.g. he prefers Linux over Mac OS X :) he was a fantastic personality.
It was so fresh to listen to a smart person speak VERY honestly. No corporate crap. Just feeling and passion.
I am a big fan of IKVM, and think it is very interesting that Java and .NET bytecode can be run in the same place. There is a lot of potential here.
I didn't quite agree about the portability issues with Mono. I think that the majority of Microsofties are still using COM, and dink with the registry, etc etc...
Great stuff.
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