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

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

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.

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

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

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