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.

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.

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

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.

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

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