Miguel de Icaza
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.Collection: Computers
There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.Collection: Realizing
Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Nice
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.Collection: Art
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.Collection: Language
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.Collection: People
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.Collection: Editing
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.Collection: Java
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.Collection: Writing
We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.Collection: Looks
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out thereCollection: People
When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.Collection: Jobs
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.Collection: Desktop
I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.Collection: Believe