Miguel de Icaza

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Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican software developer best known for co-founding the GNOME desktop project and leading the Mono open-source .NET implementation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf free software advocate
human
software developer
associatedWith Free Software Foundation
GNOME Foundation
Microsoft .NET ecosystem
awardReceived Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software
MIT Technology Review TR100
coFounderOf GNOME
Xamarin
Ximian
countryOfCitizenship Mexico
developed Mono
Mono for Android
MonoTouch
employer Microsoft
Novell
Xamarin
Ximian
familyName de Icaza
fieldOfWork .NET technologies
free and open-source software
software engineering
founded Mono project
givenName Miguel
hasOnlinePresence GitHub account
personal blog
influenced Linux desktop adoption
cross-platform .NET development
knownFor co-founding the GNOME desktop project
leading the Mono project
work on open-source .NET implementation
languageSpoken English
Spanish
name Miguel de Icaza
nationality Mexican
notableAchievement helped create a major free desktop environment for Unix-like systems
pioneered cross-platform .NET on Linux and other systems
notableFor promoting open-source development tools for mobile platforms
notableWork GNOME desktop environment
Mono .NET implementation
Xamarin mobile development platform
occupation programmer
software architect
technology entrepreneur
residence United States
role leader of the Mono project

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