Technology Quotes by Miguel de Icaza

12 Technology quotes by Miguel de Icaza

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Miguel de Icaza’s twelve short reflections shine a light on the ethos of open‑source development and the spirit of collaboration. They form a compact yet inspiring glimpse for anyone curious about his advocacy for software liberty.

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In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

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

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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

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We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

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Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

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Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

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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…

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In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but…

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We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we…

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We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

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I've never worked with the Java community.

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All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

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There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

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In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

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I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

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We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

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Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

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We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight

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

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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 could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

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