Editing Miguel de Icaza (section)

===Advocacy of Microsoft open technologies===
De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's [[Office Open XML|Office Open XML (OOXML)]] document standard,<ref>{{cite web|title=OOXML. (Score:4, Informative)|url=http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=293507&cid=20547277|publisher=[[Slashdot]]|access-date=2008-08-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html|title=The EU Prosecutors are Wrong. - Miguel de Icaza|website=tirania.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Apr-02.html|title=OOXML: The Wins - Miguel de Icaza|website=tirania.org}}</ref> disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the [[open-source software|open source]] and [[free-software community]].

He also developed [[Mono (software)|Mono]] – a free and open-source alternative to Microsoft's [[.NET Framework]] – for GNOME.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mono and Gnome: The Long Reply|url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-02-06-011-20-OP-GN-MS|publisher=[[LinuxToday]]|access-date=2010-01-15|archive-date=2012-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309114022/http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-02-06-011-20-OP-GN-MS|url-status=dead}}</ref> This has raised much disagreement due to the patents that Microsoft holds on the .NET Framework.

De Icaza was criticized by [[Richard Stallman]] on the [[Software Freedom Day]] 2009, who labeled him as "Traitor to the Free Software Community".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osnews.com/story/22225/RMS_De_Icaza_Traitor_to_Free_Software_Community/|date=2009-09-21|title=RMS: De Icaza Traitor to Free Software Community|first=Thom |last=Holwerda |access-date=2012-11-19|publisher=osnews.com}}</ref> Icaza responded on his blog to Stallman with the remark that he believes in a "world of possibility" and that he is open for discussions on ways to improve the pool of [[Free and open-source software|open source and free software]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Sep-23.html |title=On Richard Stallman|first=Miguel|last=de Icaza|quote=''I want to say that God loves all creatures. From the formidable elephant to the tiniest ant. And that includes Richard Stallman. As for me, I think that there is a world of possibility, and if Richard wants to discuss how we can improve the pool of open source/free software in the world he has my email address. Love, Miguel.''|publisher=tirania.org}}</ref>