Miguel de Icaza Quotes
"When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Job)
"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."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Linux, Machine)
"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."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Learning, Linux)
"We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases."
- Miguel de Icaza
"We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Love, People, Fact, Linux)
"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Security)
"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Software, Today, Writing)
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: People, Scientists, Word, Writers)
"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."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Time, Investment, Today, Will)
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Problems, Running)
"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Beginning)
"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Time, Programming)
"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Open, Projects)
"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Work, Will)
"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."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Art, Strategy, Software, Will)
"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."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: People, Company, June, Linux, October, Office, Want)
"I've never worked with the Java community."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Community)
"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Libraries)
"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."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Work, Building, Linux, Projects, Tools)
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Language, Project)
"It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: People, Will)
"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: People)
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Software, Today)