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.
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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
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.
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It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
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Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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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.
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