French Police switch 37,000 computers to Linux

[woodsmoke]

Read it and smile!

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise...armerie_linux/

Multimedia applications such as graphic design, audio engineering, and video editing have particularly lagged on Linux. According to Miguel de Icaza, one of the original designers of the GNOME desktop environment for Linux,

the lack of professional applications on Linux has a lot to do with early failures by him and other desktop environment creators to build standardized, backwards-compatible platforms for developers.

however......the above sentence is..... correct/not correct/troubling?
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Not at all, when one considers that while working to create a .NET clone in Linux de Icaza was perpetually extolling the virtues of windows over Linux. All he was really setting up was an MS IP patent trap. (Remember the Mono wars created by in influx of Windows developers wanting to extend the sales territory of the shareware .NET apps?) A couple years ago, when .NET collapsed following the failure of the London Stock Exchange (and its conversion to Linux) de Icaza moved to Mac, in hopes of creating an income source writing MONO apps for Mac. I don't think that worked out well for him either. Sliverlight and Mono are dead, and .NET is dying, if not dead.
de Icaza and his comments are irrelevant to any discussion of Linux.

[woodsmoke]

Thanks guys, I had no idea of his history.

woodsmoke