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'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.

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

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

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.

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

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.