WTF?
I'm seriously confused here. Is this the same guy who thumbed his nose at Microsoft and instigated the creation Mono?
If so, isn't he at least a little conflicted about the closed nature of the platform?
I'm seriously confused here. Is this the same guy who thumbed his nose at Microsoft and instigated the creation Mono?
If so, isn't he at least a little conflicted about the closed nature of the platform?
Well, as deep as as a quid pro quo seeker might feel, anyway. He certainly never came off as an idealist.
But he has plans for it http://monotouch.net/iPad (found on HN)
In the Summer of 1997 my friend Randy Chapman invited me to interview at the Microsoft Internet Explorer for Solaris on the SPARC (because of my background in the Linux/SPARC port). I went to interview to Microsoft that summer and met both Randy Chapman and Nat Friedman for the first time in person. We had known for a long time from the LinuxNet IRC network.
At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested in it inmediately. Upon my return to Mexico Federico and I started to design a GUI control infrastructure for Unix that we code named `GNOME'.