Popularity: 8
Vote:   | After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | At Novell, we have set up a continuous build process for Mono and its tools that not only builds Mono, but also runs an extensive test suite. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | But .NET is a really nice platform to build on. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Gnome and KDE are basically the shells, but then there are higher-level applications like the office suite. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I think that Microsoft overdid what .Net was. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I've never worked with the Java community. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 6
Vote: | In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET. |
Popularity: 10
Vote: | Microsoft realises today that Linux is competing for some of the green pastures that it's been enjoying for so long; I think that Longhorn is a big attempt to take back what they owned before. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | My main focus is the client. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | .NET was a company-wide branding effort at Microsoft that spanned multiple projects. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Our class libraries are regularly copied-and-pasted into other projects, as they fill a large void in the compact framework world, where the class libraries are fairly incomplete. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Right now we compiling on Windows and popping the executable and running it on Linux. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We are making Linux a fertile ground for third-party developers: we are allowing developers with Windows/.NET expertise to use and distribute software for Linux, easing the adoption of Linux. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We're doing Mono because we care about upgrading the development platform, we care about language independence; and it's very nice two work on. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. |
Popularity: 9
Vote: | What's important to keep in mind is that you do not actually use the Windows API in .NET - you use the .NET API - the clasese they have defined. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | You probably don't hear too much about .Net because now it's not hot news, it's just something that developers have. |