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

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

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

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

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

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