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Blog But it comes from Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome and Mono, so it has a certain investment of radiance. Investigative Journalist De Icaza signing off. This is a pure rumour, sourced from random tweets.
[October 22, 2009, 22:03]
Gnome Foundation hires Timothy Ney
News The lead developer of the project is Miguel de Icaza of Ximian, a company based on building applications for the Gnome user interface. He has always been a great resource for Gnome," said de Icaza. Ney's organizing experience may be tested as de...
[August 24, 2001, 8:30]
Mono Project releases non-Windows tools
News The Mono Project is intended to bring the ease of use that marks Microsoft's .Net tools to developers creating software for non-Microsoft operating systems, said Mono founder Miguel de Icaza, now vice president of development at Novell.
[July 1, 2004, 11:40]
Silverlight open-source implementation released
News Mono, directed by Novell employee Miguel de Icaza, is aiming to create an open-source, cross-platform set of tools compatible with Microsoft's .Net programming framework. Moonlight supports the Silverlight 1.0 profile for Linux, de Icaza said in a...
[May 16, 2008, 13:14]
Mono Project aims to bring .Net apps to Linux
News Ximian's de Icaza expects to reach the development milestone where the compiler can compile the class libraries by the end of the year. The reason we are working on this is to .upgrade .our development platform to build our (Evolution) desktop...
[October 30, 2001, 10:23]
Delay hits open-source .Net project
News The Mono project, started in 2001 by programmer Miguel de Icaza, operates as an open-source project under the auspices of Ximian. About a year ago, de Icaza said an initial release of Mono would be available by the end of 2003.
[November 19, 2003, 9:30]
Silverlight goes Linux with Moonlight 1.0
News Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that Moonlight 1.0, which tracks the Silverlight 1.0 application programming interface (API), supports the Microsoft Media Pack codec.
[December 3, 2008, 15:19]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News According to Novell's vice president of developer platforms, Miguel de Icaza, the situation won't change in the foreseeable future. There's no end in sight to the ongoing disputes between the two camps," said de Icaza, speaking at XML 2007, a...
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
Mono update promises to pull in .NET 2.0
News Mono 2.0 gives .NET developers the freedom to run their applications on a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS and Unix," said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of development platforms at Novell and the originator of the Mono...
[October 7, 2008, 13:30]
Mono release gives Linux boost to .Net
News The Mono project was created by Miguel de Icaza while he was working at Ximian, which was acquired by Novell in 2003, as a way of quickly creating Linux applications. Speaking at Microsoft's TechEd Developers conference in Barcelona, De Icaza told...
[November 9, 2006, 12:34]
Ximian changes open-source licence
News The change was made to accommodate Intel, which wanted to contribute to class library work but chafed at the GPL's requirement that software remain open-source only, said Ximian co-founder Miguel de Icaza.
[January 28, 2002, 9:30]
Novell acquires Ximian
News Ximian will become the Novell Ximian Services business unit at Novell, and principal developers and open-source leaders will stay with the company, including Ximian founders Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, according to Novell.
[August 4, 2003, 16:35]
LinuxWorld: Linux readies its desktop assault
News About 250 developer/hobbyists have been working on Gnome for the past 18 months, according to project leader Miguel de Icaza. We also want to go to the desktops of people who are not experts in computers," de Icaza said.
[March 4, 1999, 9:27]
Microsoft promise lets Mono off the hook
News A few months ago we approached [server and tools chief] Bob Muglia and [web platform and tools product manager] Brian Goldfarb at Microsoft with a request to clarify the licensing situation for the Ecma standards covering C# and the CLI," Mono...
[July 7, 2009, 16:37]
Open source fans try to outflank .Net
News Last week, de Icaza said he's researched .Net extensively, likes it and believes having a version of .Net for Linux would be "good for Linux and Microsoft". In February, de Icaza said his company's "long-term plans are along the lines of providing...
[July 5, 2001, 12:29]
Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News Mono project founder Miguel de Icaza said in a 2006 blog post that developers intended to continue following policies designed to minimise the risk of any legal threat from Microsoft. For example, the Mono project includes a Microsoft compatibility...
[June 30, 2009, 8:03]
Hidden Pitfalls in .Net Open Source?
News Project Mono is the effort of Miguel de Icaza, a noted Linux user interface developer and CTO of Ximian, a Linux desktop applications company. De Icaza said last week he is moving ahead with his Mono Project.
[August 6, 2001, 16:38]
Microsoft edges into sharing code
News But if Microsoft truly wanted to spread Microsft.Net software beyond Windows, it would have done better to choose Linux, which is in more widespread use than FreeBSD, said Miguel de Icaza, chief technology officer of Linux software maker Ximian.
[June 28, 2001, 13:44]
Ozzie takes Microsoft beyond Windows
News Unlike WPF, that requires people to rewrite their software to take advantage of it, Silverlight is aimed at the web and it will become a nice complement, a way of spicing up existing web applications without rewriting what already works," de Icaza...
[May 3, 2007, 17:26]
Linux Silverlight implementation goes live
News Moonlight forms part of the Novell-led Mono project, the lead developer of which is Miguel de Icaza. De Icaza announced the full release of Moonlight 1.0, which went into public beta at the start of December, in a blog post on Wednesday.
[February 12, 2009, 12:09]
