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

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

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

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

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

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.