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Miguel De Icaza replies to Richard Stallman and everyone else about his hopes for GNOME and the Mono Project. Evolution took us two years to develop and at its peak had 17 engineers working on the project. I want to be able to deliver four times as many free software applications with the same resources, and I believe that this is achievable with these new technologies... Whether people in GNOME or elsewhere will use Mono is independent of my opinion. Mono will have to stand on its own feet, and will have to convince developers on its own merits before it succeeds... What if we never can keep up?... Even if that is the case, we still win, because we would get this nice programming environment, that althought might not end up being 100% DotNet Framework compatible, it would still be an improvement and would still help us move forward. I think he'll find it impossible for both technical and legal/patent reasons to maintain compatibility, and at some point this will undermine most of the justification for the project. Winterspeak covers some replies .