It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET. Miguel de Icaza applicationdeveloplot Change image and share on social
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. Miguel de Icaza artclaimdeal share on social
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. Miguel de Icaza customerdesktopexist Change image and share on social
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. Miguel de Icaza applicationbuildclose share on social
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. Miguel de Icaza 000companyjump share on social
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. Miguel de Icaza codeopenproject Change image and share on social
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. Miguel de Icaza daylatexpeople Change image and share on social
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. Miguel de Icaza editionmonorelease Change image and share on social
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. Miguel de Icaza begininterestjava Change image and share on social
Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. Miguel de Icaza developinterestmicrosoft Change image and share on social