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| Born | c. 1972 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Software developer |
| Employer | Novell Inc. |
| Title | Vice President of Developer Platform |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Laura |
| Website www.tirania.org/blog |
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Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.[1]
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Biography
Early years
Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his father was a physicist and his mother a biologist.[2] He started writing free software in 1992.
Early software career
In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team (to work on a SPARC port), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work H-1B visa. He declared in an interview that he tried to persuade his interviewers to free the IE code even before Netscape did with their own browser.
GNOME, Ximian, and Mono
De Icaza started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997 to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.[3] Earlier, De Icaza had worked on the Midnight Commander file manager and the Linux kernel. He also created the spreadsheet program Gnumeric.
In 1999, De Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers. In 2001, Helix Code, later renamed Ximian, announced the Mono Project, to be led by De Icaza, with the goal to implement Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms. In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell, Inc. There, De Icaza is currently the Vice President of Developer Platform.
Advocacy of Microsoft technologies
De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard,[4] disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free software community.
He has also been a long time advocate of integrating Mono - a free software implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework - into GNOME. This has raised a lot of disagreement due to the patents that Microsoft holds on, and related to, the .NET Framework.
Awards and recognition
Miguel de Icaza has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.
Personal life
Miguel has had cameo appearances in the 2001 motion pictures Antitrust and The Code.
He married Brazilian Maria Laura in 2003.
References
- ^ Robert Young; Wendy Goldman Rohm (1999). Under the Radar. Coriolis. pp. 139. ISBN 9781576105061. http://books.google.com/books?id=OqSHZst3S0QC&q=Miguel+de+Icaza&dq=Miguel+de+Icaza&pgis=1.
- ^ "Inteview with Miguel De Icaza". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6833. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
- ^ Mark Mamone (2005). Practical Mono. Apress. pp. 7. ISBN 9781590595480. http://books.google.com/books?id=YpIAry7MNCcC&dq=Federico+Mena&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0.
- ^ "OOXML. (Score:4, Informative)". Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=293507&cid=20547277. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
External links
- Miguel de Icaza's blog
- Miguel de Icaza at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile in MIT Technology Review, Sept. 2004
Interviews
- Miguel de Icaza 2009 interview on Linux Outlaws
- Catching up with Miguel de Icaza by .NET Rocks!
- Interview with Miguel de Icaza by RadioTux
- Miguel de Icaza interview on FLOSS Weekly
- Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza on Port25
- Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2006 MP3
- March 2007 interview of de Icaza by Der Standard
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