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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Gnumeric.
by Miguel de Icaza on Mon 10th May 2004 04:46 UTC

I spoke about Gnumeric as Eugenia asked me directly about it during our lunch ;-)

My position is still that OpenOffice is the best way of getting open source adopted everywhere as its the most complete suite. Both the Gnome office and KDE office are good intentioned attempts of builinding an office suite, but they are many years away of solving the general problem that Open Office solves today.

Novell is working extensively to improve OpenOffice: the whole company is moving to it, and there is no better way of improving and enhancing the software than using it yourself.

Miguel.