Mexican - Scientist | 1972 -
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
Miguel de Icaza
BeginningProblemYouYourSwitch
In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
ExtraSetLargeVeryAdditionMono
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
OpenSourceOpen SourceUsedCode
Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
ProblemsTestCatchUsJustLike
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
WorkYearNewWillStartedAfter
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
TodayComputersSomeoneSoftware
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
TodayWritingProblemSoftwareMono
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.
ArtStrategyFindWillTrySoftware
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.
Too MuchNiceBuildWayEmpower
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
ChooseOverBecauseCannotCode
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.
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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.
TodayTimeStoryYouNewInvestment
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