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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."
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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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."
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