Summary: Reminder for the unaware that Docky, which can easily be substituted with another dock, brings with it a whole stack of problems

Docky is a close relative of GNOME-Do (they are being decoupled), which is of course based on Mono. We thought it would be worthwhile pointing this out because a lot of people are unaware of the issue. To quote from a new thread in a Ubuntu site (GNOME-Do is developed by a Canonical employee by the way):

"what is this "class=/usr/lib/docky/'Docky.exe'"? exe file in linux :-( why ?"

In reply:

"That is called Mono. Mono program also use .dll for their library files. Awful, isn't it ?"

We strongly discourage the use of Mono and so does Apple on the face of it [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] (not to mention the FSF). This new article from the Guardian mentions Apple's exclusion of MonoTouch. ⬆