Miguel Icaza
Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Miguel de Icaza
Born: c. 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico
Computer-related contributions
- Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander File Manager, a text-mode file manager.
- One of the early contributors to the Wine project.
- Worked with David Miller on the Linux SPARC port and wrote several video and network drivers in the port, and the libc ports to the platform.
Honors and awards
- Microsoft MVP Award (2010).
- Named as the fifth in the "Most Powerful Voices in Open Source" (2010).
- Named one of Time magazine's 100 innovators for the new century (2000).
- Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software (1999).
- MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award (1999).
Quotes
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."