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Open source leadership can only be handled well by people who have experienced and participated in Open Source. If Microsoft is serious about Open Source, they
by jeswin 5y ago
Open source leadership can only be handled well by people who have experienced and participated in Open Source. If Microsoft is serious about Open Source, they need to put in charge someone who's done this before. They have plenty of people who can lead this; Scott Hanselman, Miguel Icaza, Nat Friedman...
Whoever approved this in the first place has shown a shocking level of incompetence in understanding how the developer ecosystems have tilted in the last decade.
- DeathArrow 5y agoActually Miguel Icaza would be very good as a head of .NET development. He's not only managed to build a large open source code base but he also managed to win money from it. He's also a good developer, so he knows how to please developers.