Monday Quiz

July 7, 2008 7:59 pm johan General

In this quiz I am looking for 3 persons who are or have been syndicated by Planet GNOME.

Question 1: What are their relationship with the below mentioned projects/technologies?

Question 2: Who are they?

Person A

  • Norton Commander
  • Microsoft COM
  • Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Silverlight

Person B

  • Regedit
  • DCOP
  • KHTML

Person C

  • Apple iTunes
  • Spice3
  • Microsoft Project

10 Responses

  1. Alex Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 20:21

    Person A Sounds a lot like Miguel de Icaza)
    * Norton Commander - Gnu Midnight Commander was a Norton Commander clone that was the original filemanager for gnome, Miguel was the original author
    * Microsoft COM - COM was an inspiration for Bonobo
    * Microsoft .NET Framework - Miguel started Mono
    * Microsoft Excel - Miguel worked on the excellent Gnome Spreadsheet Gnumeric
    * Microsoft Outlook - Miguel’s Ximian created the Outlook clone Evolution
    * Microsoft Silverlight - Miguel started Moonlight

  2. John Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 20:24

    person a
    Miguel de Icaza

    Norton Commander
    midnight commander

    Microsoft COM
    Bonobo

    Microsoft .NET Framework
    Mono

    Microsoft Excel
    Gnumeric

    Microsoft Outlook
    Evolution

    Microsoft Silverlightght
    Moonlight

  3. Nat Budin Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 20:50

    Person A has to be Miguel de Icaza, who has worked on projects cloning all of the listed technologies.

  4. Kjartan Maraas Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 21:10

    A. Who spearheaded free software equivalents of all the mentioned software?

    Miguel!

    The rest I have to think about :-)

  5. no one in particular Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 21:12

    Miguel de Izaca helped write mc, ORBit, Mono, Gnumeric, Evolution, and Moonlight?

  6. nona Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 21:12

    I suppose Person A is Miguel, and his relationship with those projects is that he made open source reimplementations of all of them?

    Person B might be Havoc?

  7. Alberto Ruiz Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 21:20

    Miguel de Icaza,
    some weird guy,
    and Anders Carlsson :D

  8. johan Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 21:53

    Everybody: Yes, A is Miguel.
    Alberto: Bingo, C is Anders

    Okay, who’s B? I can give you another hint, he’s a swede and I have actually contributed to two of the projects.

  9. Søren Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 22:20

    I would have though that B was Anders.

    C sounds more like Richard Hult than Anders.

  10. johan Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 22:25

    Soeren is right (and I did mix up B and C!)