Miguel de Icaza Quotes
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I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.
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We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
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We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.
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When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there
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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
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Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
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Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
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So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.