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Miguel also developed Xamarin and Mono (his company was acquired by Microsoft).
RMS labeled him as "Traitor to the Free Software Community" which has to be some kind of badge of honor, lol
He's also an egotistical dick who will do anything to try and "prove" he's right. And the initial reason I personally stopped using gnome.
A dime a dozen in FOSS it seems.
Eh, I'd say thats mostly just the ones you hear about. There are some amazing, humble, brilliant folks in FOSS that no one notices because they just don't generate the kind of drama that gets attention.
My comment is mostly a reflection of people who are not project maintainers. FOSS users are known to be insufferable bunch. We tend to want to crucify people who are trying something different (just see the comments in this thread, for example). The ”community” is toxic, as the kids say.