Miguel de Icaza Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.”

“In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.”

“It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.”

“Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.”

“In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.”

“Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.”

“They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.”

“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.”