In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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.
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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.
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.