cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50292160
🐧🇲🇽 ¿Sabían que GNOME es Mexicanx?
It was started by a Mexican guy (Miguel de Icaza) who eventually went to work for Microsoft, oops.
and Federico Mena, both have cool contributions to libre software.
Miguel also developed Xamarin and Mono (his company was acquired by Microsoft).
RMS labeled him as “Traitor to the Free Software Community” which has to be some kind of badge of honor, lol
Would you rather be a traitor with a life or some guy who was a good programmer in the 90s but spiraled into someone who eats fungi from his foot?
Not really into fungi or old free software fogies so I guess I’d have to go with traitor.
I assume Microsoft hired that guy, because they started to be more towards Open Source and Linux.
In February 2016, Xamarin announced being acquired by Microsoft.[14] One month later at the Microsoft Build conference, it was announced that the Mono Project would be relicensed to MIT, Visual Studio would include Xamarin (even the free versions) without restrictions, and Xamarin SDKs would be opensourced.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#GNOME,_Ximian,_Xamarin_and_Mono
Gnome is highly international, and has been for most of its existence.
True, it became an international citizen like all libre software. Im just proud that it was born in Mexico, in Latin America not much public recognition is had for local software. There’s a perception that most services are from abroad. Thats why i phrased the original post title like that (cross posted). More like a “if it had a nationality, it would be mexican” kinda thing.
Icaza is a MS drone. That may explain why Gnome Project is so stubborn.
Miguel is out of GNOME for many years.
The Gnomisms remain.
They put the foot down.
Bonjour hermano
