Star Miguel de Icaza: Rest of the World to Eventually Force US Into Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th May 2004 02:54 UTC
Novell and Ximian Last Thursday OSNews had the opportunity to meet Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, Ximian and among other things leader of the much discussed, Mono project. Miguel is a talented and versatile developer but he is also a very intelligent businessman able to understand the industry on many different levels. Talking to Miguel guarantees that you are very quickly taken away by his enthusiasm and optimism and his thoughtful strategies and vision on how OSS will take over the world.
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Not likely
by Rayiner Hashem on Mon 10th May 2004 03:49 UTC

"Even the Linux desktop is almost usable today", he said semi-joking and continued "if the whole world is using Linux in the future, US will have to 'switch' eventually too
The rest of the world doing things differently doesn't bother anyone in the US. You're talking about a country that still uses Imperial measurements and hasn't yet discovered A4 paper. The US government will simply mandate that all communications with it must be in MS Word format (departments like USAID already do so), and everyone else will comply, especially third-world countries that need the aid money.