Miguel de Icaza and Dragos Manolescu: On Open Source, Mono and Moonlight

I was kind of hoping that the discussion would have been a tad more technical.

I would have liked to have known a timeline for Moonlight development and what features in Silverlight spec it will support.

One thing to point out, though:

Miguel is right about people's perception of Microsoft. I think people's negative connotation towards Microsoft stems ultimately from buisness practices and not the technology behind their products. For the most part, Microsoft has proved it can now build decent, reliable products.

The open source community is overally critical of Microsoft because of their market position and influence in the industry, which has made it astronomically challenging for FOSS technologies to a gain a foothold and adoption. Most notably, however, is Microsoft's IP threat to FOSS community and its ability to inflict a mortal blow; for that reason, Microsoft has positioned themself as the corporate villian to FOSS--second only to SCO, who have already litigated.