> Has Miguel de Icaza not been paying attention to how Microsoft has operated since the 90s "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" era? At the risk of emulating a s

> Has Miguel de Icaza not been paying attention to how Microsoft has operated since the 90s "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" era? At the risk of emulating a stopped clock (one that is invariably right twice a day) I'll note that many folks have been pointing this out to Miguel ever since he first hopped on the Open Source MS Platform train with Mono et al. He got paid plenty of money both directly and indirectly to provide MS with a credible open source developer (ie. "No platform lock-in") story. The toys MS created and funded along the way were, I'm sure, nice for a while as long as you trusted them not to pull the rug out, but some of us have long memories and avoided taking the candy from the man in the van. The platform may have been "open source enough" for sufficiently low values of "enough", but, well... Not to put too fine a point on it, Miguel sounding the alarm and acting offended is a bit much. Frankly he should be apologizing to everyone he lured into the MS ecosystem over the years (and given that his investment into the platform continues to pay dividends by attracting new developers, still is luring). As it is, I hope the developers inside that ecosystem are listening to him now and leaving, but I doubt it.