 Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. |
| 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. |
| Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there. |
| Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced. |
| They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure. |
| After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. |
| We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them. |
| We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. |
| In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. |
| When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job. |
| The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. |
| I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump. |
| 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. |
| In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. |
| All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. |
| With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. |
| I've never worked with the Java community. |
| We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. |
| Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. |
| 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. |
