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.

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

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.

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

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

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