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

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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.

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

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

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.

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.