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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 I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.


Miguel de Icaza

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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Science is a cemetery of dead ideas
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn f...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to f...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquiste...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO ¿Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is i...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the qu...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your T...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES