Mtangoo
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- Oct 25, 2012
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Some might say what? Not K&R? Not Linus?
Yeah, today is Miguel. All those you know are great, but let see this man who created so much we use today.
WHO IS HE?
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his father is a physicist and his mother a biologist. He started writing free software in 1992.
WHAT DID HE WRITE/CONTRIBUTE?
- he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager, a text-mode file manager.
- one of the early contributors to the Wine project.
- He worked with David Miller on the Linux SPARC port and wrote several of the video and network drivers in the port, as well as the libc ports to the platform
- started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997
- With others at Ximian created the Mono Project with the goal to implement Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms
Awards and recognition
- Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software
- the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999
- named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.
- In early 2010 he received a Microsoft MVP Award.
- In March 2010, he was named as the fifth in the "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".
ACHILLE'S HEEL
...studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) but never received a degree...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
His Blog: Miguel de Icaza
Source: Miguel de Icaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BH,
Yeah, today is Miguel. All those you know are great, but let see this man who created so much we use today.
WHO IS HE?
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his father is a physicist and his mother a biologist. He started writing free software in 1992.
WHAT DID HE WRITE/CONTRIBUTE?
- he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager, a text-mode file manager.
- one of the early contributors to the Wine project.
- He worked with David Miller on the Linux SPARC port and wrote several of the video and network drivers in the port, as well as the libc ports to the platform
- started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997
- With others at Ximian created the Mono Project with the goal to implement Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms
Awards and recognition
- Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software
- the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999
- named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.
- In early 2010 he received a Microsoft MVP Award.
- In March 2010, he was named as the fifth in the "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source".
ACHILLE'S HEEL
...studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) but never received a degree...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
His Blog: Miguel de Icaza
Source: Miguel de Icaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BH,