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Miguel de Icaza was born on 23 November, 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico, is a Mexican free software developer. Discover Miguel de Icaza's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

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Occupation Software developer
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 23 November 1972
Birthday 23 November
Birthplace Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexico

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1972

Miguel de Icaza (born November 23, 1972) is a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.

De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), but dropped out before getting a degree to work in IT.

He came from a family of scientists in which his father is a physicist and his mother a biologist.

1992

He started writing free software in 1992.

1994

One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager in 1994, a text-mode file manager.

He was also one of the early contributors to the Wine project.

He worked with David S. 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.

They both later worked on extending Linux for MIPS to run on SGI's Indy computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system.

With Ingo Molnár he wrote the original software implementation of RAID-1 and RAID-5 drivers of the Linux kernel.

1997

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.

He said in an interview that he tried to persuade his interviewers to free the IE code even before Netscape did so with their own browser.

De Icaza started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997 to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

He also created the GNOME spreadsheet program, Gnumeric.

1999

In 1999, de Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers.

Miguel de Icaza has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.

2001

In 2001, Helix Code, later renamed Ximian, announced the Mono Project, to be led by de Icaza, with the goal to implement Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms.

De Icaza has had cameo appearances in the 2001 motion pictures Antitrust and The Code.

2003

In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell.

There, de Icaza was Vice President of Developer Platform.

He married Maria Laura Soares da Silva (now Maria Laura de Icaza) in 2003.

De Icaza is critical of the actions of the state of Israel towards the Palestinians in the Middle East and has blogged about the subject.

On Twitter, De Icaza has rejected the claim that Hamas committed mass rape when they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.

2009

De Icaza was criticized by Richard Stallman on the Software Freedom Day 2009, who labeled him as "Traitor to the Free Software Community".

Icaza responded on his blog to Stallman with the remark that he believes in a "world of possibility" and that he is open for discussions on ways to improve the pool of open source and free software.

2010

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" by MindTouch.

2011

In May 2011, de Icaza started Xamarin to replace MonoTouch and Mono for Android after Novell was bought by Attachmate and the projects were abandoned.

Shortly afterwards, Xamarin and Novell reached an agreement where Xamarin took over the development and sales of these products.

2012

In August 2012, de Icaza criticized the Linux desktop as "killed by Apple".

De Icaza specifically criticized a generally developer-focused culture, lack of backward compatibility and fragmentation among the various Linux distributions.

2013

In March 2013, de Icaza announced on his personal blog that he regularly used macOS instead of Linux for desktop computing.

2014

In 2014 he joined Anders Hejlsberg on stage during the announcements of the .NET Foundation and the open sourcing of Microsoft's C# Compiler.

He went on to serve on the board of directors of the .NET Foundation.

In March 2022 he announced he was leaving Microsoft and taking some time off.

2016

In February 2016, Xamarin announced being acquired by Microsoft.

One month later in Microsoft Build conference, it was announced that the Mono Project would be relicensed to MIT, Visual Studio would include Xamarin (even the free versions) without restrictions, and Xamarin SDKs would be opensourced.

De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard, disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free-software community.

He also developed Mono – a free and open-source alternative to Microsoft's .NET Framework – for GNOME.

This has raised much disagreement due to the patents that Microsoft holds on the .NET Framework.