Does this sound like thumbing one's nose ?<p>In the Summer of 1997 my friend Randy Chapman invited me to interview at   the Microsoft Internet Explorer for Solaris on the SPARC (because of my background in the Linux/SPARC port).  I went to interview   to Microsoft that summer and met both Randy Chapman and Nat  Friedman for the first time in person.  We had known for a long time  from the LinuxNet IRC network.<p>At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested   in it inmediately.  Upon my return to Mexico Federico and I started to design   a GUI control infrastructure for Unix that we code named `GNOME'.<p><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html" rel="nofollow">http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html</a>