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When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.
In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.