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Who is Migheul de Icaza? I mean, pardon my ignorance, why what he says is important?
by simplegeek 17y ago
Who is Migheul de Icaza? I mean, pardon my ignorance, why what he says is important?
- andreyf 17y agoMiguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza
- simplegeek 17y agoThanks. Many apologies, I had no clue ;(
- viraptor 17y agoHe started gnome and mono projects, created ximian (now part of novell). IMHO that classifies him as important.
- dagw 17y agoBasically he's a guy that's responsible for some quite big open source software projects (GNOME,gnumeric,mono) used by quite a lot of people. He has also received the Free Software Foundation award for the Advancement of Free Software, which is why it is kind of a big deal when RMS turns around and calls him a traitor.
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- moron4hire 17y agoIn the great conversation-that-is-the-internet, why is what anyone says not important, merely for a lack of notoriety?
- theycallmemorty 17y agoWell the thread title seems to imply that this is someone we should care about. "Migheul de Icaza responds to..." vs. "A response to..."
- moron4hire 17y agoThis isn't just some schmoe replying to the GNU Manifesto. This is a person replying to comments made about him by Richard Stallman. So it's not "a response to...", it is "the response to..."