Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th May 2004 02:54 UTC
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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Regarding our pesimist friend Rayiner: all of us writing free software are in the business of changing the world. Ever since day one, people did not believe that free software would one day be this popular. We hope to prove you wrong as well.
I'm actually quite an enthusiastic supporter of free software. I do believe that it has a good chance of succeeding, in the long run. However, transition in the US will not happen, as you suggest, as a result of international pressure. We in the US are perfectly happy to wallow in our inertia, oblivious of the rest of the world. Even if everyone switches to something else, we will still use what we want to use, and mandate that anybody who communicates with us use our software. Both my father and I work for US government contractors, and I have seen repeatedly that when you do business with the US government, you do it by their rules, or risk losing their business entirely.