> In summer of 1997, he [Miguel de Icaza] was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team (to work on a SPARC port), but lacked the un

> In summer of 1997, he [Miguel de Icaza] 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 so with their own browser. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#Early_software_career http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#Early_software_... So perhaps Miguel would like working for Microsoft again.