#w

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog. ↗

— Carl Icahn

#dog #friend #get #learn #want

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#i #interested #java #platform #problem

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#latex #most #people #scientists #some

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#edition #later #mono #new #released

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#else #every #going #infringe #likely

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. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#company #i #i think #jump #june

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. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#building #cases #cross #desktop #i

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

— Miguel de Icaza

#develop #lots #net #people #strategic

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. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

My whole life has been dedicated to public service. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#dedicated #life #public #public service #service