Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icazais a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionScientist
CountryMexico
today patents pieces
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
art trying patents
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.
writing today patents
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
running
Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
build builds continuous extensive process runs test tools
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.
desktop existing learning linux migrations
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.
effort microsoft multiple
.NET was a company-wide branding effort at Microsoft that spanned multiple projects.
love might people
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
build nice platform
But .NET is a really nice platform to build on.
people strategic
It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
care language nice work
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.
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
edition later released releasing work
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.