Miguel de Icaza Quotes

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
Miguel de Icaza

Problem, Beginning, Interested

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

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

Work, After, Year

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
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Used, Open, Source

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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Computers, Today, Someone

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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Single, Whole, Year

I've never worked with the Java community.
Miguel de Icaza

Community, Worked, Java

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

Large, Libraries, Addition

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.
Miguel de Icaza

Work, Successful, Two

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
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Keep, Language, Tried

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
Miguel de Icaza

Develop, Lots, Net

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

Far, Used, Microsoft

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.
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Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
Miguel de Icaza

Problems, Test, Running

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

Time, Today, Matter

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

Today, Writing, Problem

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
Miguel de Icaza

Beautiful, Whole, Security

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
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Love, Able, Fact

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
Miguel de Icaza

Cannot, Both, Choose

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

Learning, Linux, Customers

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.
Miguel de Icaza

Nice, Wanted, Close

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
Miguel de Icaza

Technology, Develop, Microsoft

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
Miguel de Icaza

Time, Same, Once

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Nationality: Mexican

Type: Scientist

Born: 1972

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