This is probably off topic, but a number of contributers to this forum have often quoted Miguel in their signatures. I email Ximian to check out the quote and received this reply from Miguel de Icaza. I'm forwarding it FYI.
Aaaaahhhhhhh! So that's the explanation! Yesterday I received a snotty email from Miguel regarding my sig. I had no idea how he would have come to see it, seeing as I don't have much to do with GNOME or Ximian. The only clue was that he cc'ed this list on his email, although the post didn't appear here - I presume he's not subscribed. My reply did go to this list. Seeing as I cut and pasted the text of my sig from his original email, I can't see how he can claim I edited what he said, or that I mis-quoted him. I suspect he just said something he didn't mean, and is now getting entangled in a messy damage limitation exercise (on Slashdot of all places!). -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003