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.
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it's mono.
In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.