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

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

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

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.

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.

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