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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I agree with you in part, to be able to easier "invade" the computing industry of a third world country, you DO need to run on old computers *fast*.
However, to write optimized code requires _more_ time than it usually does, because of debugging and profiling, plus it requires high quality tools. I don't think that your *average* OSS hacker is going to care about crazy optimizations, most don't even know how to use a profiler.
Regarding the 300/600 US$, I don't think that a computer that costs here $300 is going to cost over there $600. Not necessarily at least.