”Miguel de Icaza may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now. Dismantling them is up to us.“
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-03-05 13:47:23 UTC
- Modified: 2022-03-05 13:47:23 UTC
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Miguel de Icaza is Gone, But Not the Damage He Caused
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Summary: Microsoft lover Miguel de Icaza has left the Microsoft family because according to him the other (lesser) family is suddenly a priority, even in his 40s (he turns 50 this year)? It seems possible that he too -- just like his friend, Nat Friedman -- got pushed out
THE end of an era? Maybe. A Microsoft booster from ZDNet has helped the arse-covering; we have good reasons to suspect that Miguel either got the boot or got too depressed given recent developments. The video above explains what happened and below we have a long list of articles for some background on Miguel's harm:
Microsoft de Icaza (1997 job interview* until the 2022 exit)
2022
2021
2020
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Miguel isn't a happy puppy. See the screenshot below. And to quote George Orwell, for anyone who doesn't even know
what doxing means (this is
not anything remotely like it):
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ⬆
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* "In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer UNIX team (to work on a SPARC port), but lacked a university degree to obtain a Visa," according to
this page.
"Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now. Dismantling them is up to us."
--Richard Stallman
