The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza More Quotes by Miguel de Icaza More Quotes From Miguel de Icaza Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. Miguel de Icaza technologydoeinteresting There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors. Miguel de Icaza realizingwrittenenough We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux. Miguel de Icaza empoweringmachinesnice 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. Miguel de Icaza patentstryingart With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. Miguel de Icaza programming-languagesprogramminglanguage When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job. Miguel de Icaza outstandingdonejobs Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. Miguel de Icaza scientistusepeople 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. Miguel de Icaza editingtodayneeds I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied. Miguel de Icaza i-believe-ini-believebelieve We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop. Miguel de Icaza desktopmoonlightlooks Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. Miguel de Icaza patentspiecestoday Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there Miguel de Icaza microsoftusedpeople We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. Miguel de Icaza gnomedesktopbases I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. Miguel de Icaza javaplatformsproblem We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. Miguel de Icaza some-peoplesomelovepeople In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. Miguel de Icaza extralargesetvery All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. Miguel de Icaza openopen-sourcesourceused Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced. Miguel de Icaza testusproblemslike After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. Miguel de Icaza newwillyearwork In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. Miguel de Icaza seebuildingtoolswork
