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.

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

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

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.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there