Miguel de Icaza: "We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight"

In 1997 Miguel de Icaza - together with Federico Mena Quintero - started one of the most influential Open Source projects: The GNOME desktop. At Novell he nowadays is leading the development of Mono, the free .Net-implementation he initiated in 2001. Since a few months he is also working on an open source version of Microsofts Silverlight - a task officially blessed by Microsoft.

During the recent GNOME Users and Developers Conference (GUADEC) Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to sit down with de Icaza and talk about future developments around Mono and Moonlight, the possibility of open sourcing .Net itself and changes in Microsofts attitude towards free software.