Comments on: Monday Quiz

By: johan

johan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:25:10 +0000

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

By: Søren

Søren — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:20:23 +0000

I would have though that B was Anders.

C sounds more like Richard Hult than Anders.

By: johan

johan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:53:25 +0000

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.

By: Alberto Ruiz

Alberto Ruiz — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:20:07 +0000

Miguel de Icaza,
some weird guy,
and Anders Carlsson

By: nona

nona — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:12:29 +0000

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?

By: no one in particular

no one in particular — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:12:09 +0000

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

By: Kjartan Maraas

Kjartan Maraas — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:10:19 +0000

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

Miguel!

The rest I have to think about

By: Nat Budin

Nat Budin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:50:02 +0000

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

By: John

John — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:24:44 +0000

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

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:21:48 +0000

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