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

- Miguel De Icaza

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

- Miguel De Icaza

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

- Miguel De Icaza

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

- 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 wi…

- Miguel De Icaza

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

- Miguel De Icaza

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 buil…

- Miguel De Icaza

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

- Miguel De Icaza

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

- Miguel De Icaza