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I've never worked with the Java community.
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Java
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I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.
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Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
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We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.
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Desktop
Looks
Moonlight
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When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.
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Jobs
Done
Outstanding
Net
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All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
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Code
Open Source
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Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
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Technology
Doe
Interesting
Microsoft
Develop
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In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
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Independent
Project
Platform
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It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
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Strategic
Lots
Applications
Develop
Net
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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there
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Microsoft
People
Used
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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
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Microsoft
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In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
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Mono
Addition
Extra
Libraries
Produced
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We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
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Linux
Migrate
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There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.
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Enough
Realizing
Written
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Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
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Catch
Introduced
Suite
Test
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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Computers
Patents
Pieces
Software
Today
Written
Likely
Patent
Piece
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They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
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Infrastructure
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
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Available
Language
Programming
Programming Languages
Languages
Net
Published
Same Time
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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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Latex
People
Scientist
Use
Days
Writers
Word
Scientists
Tex
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We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
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Bases
Code
Desktop
Gnome
Users
We Cannot
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I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
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Java
Platforms
Problem
Platform
Switch
The Problem With
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After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
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Mono
Work Will New
Edition
Work New Will
Released
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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
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Mono
Patents
Software
Today
Writing
Affect
Patent
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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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Considering
Desktop
Linux
Migration
Rolling
Existing
Programs
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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.
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Empowering
Linux
Machines
Nice
Users
Applications
Empower
Machine
Regular
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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.
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Art
Mono
Patents
Software
Strategy
Trying
Claim
Dealing
Developer
Event
Patent
Prior
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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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Linux
Migrate
Next Year
October
Office
Jump
Operating
Operating System
Suite
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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.
Miguel De Icaza / Programmer
Cases
Desktop
Linux
Mozilla
Tools
Cross
Programs
Platform
Specific
Wildly
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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 / Programmer
Desktop
Editing
Enterprise
Investment
Needs
Today
Time Today Will
Applications
Closer
Require
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