"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."

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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

Software

"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."

Libraries

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

Work

"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."

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"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."

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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."

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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."

Art

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

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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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"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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