36 Quotes by Miguel de Icaza

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.

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

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

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.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight

I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

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.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.