AntipsicÃ³tico

Miguel De Icaza (born in 1972 with Mexico City) - sometimes called MDI - is a Mexican programmer. He was the leader of the free project GNOME launched in 1997 and intended to bring user-friendliness to the system GNU/Linux (in alternative to KDE, based on the graphic library Qt, at the time owner). In 1999, it receives the Prix for the development of the free software of FSF for its contribution to the free software through the GNOME project.

Thereafter, it becomes one of the cofounders of the company Ximian (initially called Helixcode ), which markets in particular parcelled up versions of GNOME. Ximian is then repurchased by Novell, where Miguel de Icaza always works, in the capacity as vice-president in load of the development.

Miguel de Icaza is known for her outspokenness and her taste for the polemic. It in particular fed the “war of the offices” between KDE and GNOME and was pointed out by a provocation in the form of a critic of the system UNIX at the time of a conference.

It also launched in 2001 the project Mono, a Mise in free work of the platform of development Microsoft .NET. It did not take part in the negotiations which preceded the agreement by the November 2nd 2006 made between Novell and Microsoft, which partly relates to the Mono project and the risks of continuation for patent violation.

Anecdote

In 2001, it made a appearance in the film Antitrust .

External bonds

its blog
its old Web site

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