Editing Miguel de Icaza (section)

===Early software career===
One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for Linux was the [[Midnight Commander]] file manager in 1994, a text-mode file manager.<ref name="mc-maintainer">{{cite web | url = http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/mc/mc/FAQ?rev=HEAD | title = Midnight Commander FAQ | author = Midnight Commander authors | access-date = 2010-09-06 | quote = ''Midnight Commander was started by Miguel de Icaza and he is the maintainer of the package. Other authors have joined the project later.''}}</ref> He was also one of the early contributors to the [[Wine (software)|Wine project]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Wine History|url=http://wiki.winehq.org/WineHistory|publisher=wiki.winehq.org|access-date=2012-07-10}}</ref>

He worked with [[David S. Miller]] on the Linux [[SPARC]] port and wrote several of the video and network drivers in the port, as well as the libc ports to the platform.<ref name="sparc-port-usenix97">{{cite web | url = http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/summaries/miller_invite.html | title = The SPARC Port of Linux | author=David S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP, and Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | work = Usenix Proceedings | year = 1997 | publisher = [[USENIX]] Association | access-date = 2010-04-18}}</ref> They both later worked on extending Linux for [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]] to run on SGI's [[SGI Indy|Indy]] computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.kneuro.net/cgi-bin/lxr/http/source/drivers/sgi/char/graphics.c | title = graphics.c | author = Miguel de Icaza | access-date = 2011-11-19 | quote = ''Author: Miguel de Icaza'' | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120121124314/http://www.kneuro.net/cgi-bin/lxr/http/source/drivers/sgi/char/graphics.c | archive-date = 2012-01-21 | url-status = dead }}</ref> With [[Ingo Molnár]] he wrote the original software implementation of [[RAID-1]] and [[RAID-5]] drivers of the [[Linux kernel]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.koders.com/c/fid90D0506D0981288C46C7A849BBB82C7276351E12.aspx?s=rsa | title = raid5.c | quote = ''Copyright: (C) 1996, 1997 Ingo Molnar, Miguel de Icaza, Gadi Oxman'' | access-date = 2011-11-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120124014446/http://www.koders.com/c/fid90D0506D0981288C46C7A849BBB82C7276351E12.aspx?s=rsa | archive-date = 2012-01-24 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by [[Microsoft]] for a job in the [[Internet Explorer for UNIX|Internet Explorer Unix]] team (to work on a [[SPARC]] port), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work [[H-1B visa]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://nat.org/blog/2009/10/ | title = Startup Visa | first = Nat | last = Friedman | date = 2009-10-31 | access-date = 2010-09-06 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20140328013753/http://nat.org/blog/2009/10/ | archive-date = 2014-03-28 }}</ref> He said in an interview that he tried to persuade his interviewers to free the IE code even before [[Netscape]] did so with their own browser.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/library?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/deicazainterview.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020108174635/http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=%2Flibrary%2Fen-us%2Fdndotnet%2Fhtml%2Fdeicazainterview.asp|url-status=dead|title=Microsoft API and Reference Catalog|archive-date=January 8, 2002|website=msdn.microsoft.com}}</ref>