Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Read full biography of Miguel de Icaza →
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you... →
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects... →
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the... →
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning... →
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular... →
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.