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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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"We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate."
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"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."
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"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."
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"It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET."
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"We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them."
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"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
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"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."
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"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
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"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
People
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
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"There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it."
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"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
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"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
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"I just became one with my browser software."
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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock."
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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
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