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derStandard: "...last September Microsoft signed an agreement which results in Microsoft endorsing Moonlight - our own free implementation of Silverlight.

So they are providing us with specifications, they are providing us with tech contacts, so whenever any specification is not clear, we have access to their engineers."

derStandard.at sits down with Miguel de Icaza to discuss Mono and Moonlight at the GUADEC conference in Istanbul. de Icaza has lots to say about both projects, but also seems rather unhappy with the Mozilla folks: "And even the Mozilla guys - the keynote we had here was done on a mac, every single Mozilla developer uses a Mac.

And it's funny, they constantly attack Silverlight, they constantly attack Flash and then all of them use proprietary operating systems, they don't seem to have a problem doing it.

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by computerishcat Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, recently did an interview with derStandard in which he discussed issues with ...

Esta es una entrevista realizada a Shuttleworth disponible en derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3413801 Habla de los errores de Ubuntu 8.04, porque fue lanzada aun con esos errores, y de su firme convicción sobre que las distribuciones deben fijar ciclos de lanzamiento similares.

En algunas cosas tiene razón, en otras solo se defiende. Muy interesante.

derStandard.at: "derStandard.at: So should people wanting a really stable Ubuntu wait for the first point release, like lots of Windows users are waiting for the first Service pack of a new release?

"Shuttleworth: It really shouldn't be like that, a release should be deployable."