In 1999, de Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers.
I 1999 oprettede de Icaza sammen med Nat Friedman virksomheden Helix Code, en GNOME-orienteret fri software-virksomhed og ansatte et stort antal andre GNOME-hackere.