Miguel de Icaza Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Miguel de Icaza Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    I've never worked with the Java community. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. Miguel de Icaza | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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