In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
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All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
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.
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.
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
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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