How pathetic can you get, when you don’t even have the guts to use your real name or even use a single unique Google-able pseudo-identity? What kind “Linux Advocate” can just ignore the issues raised by the Microsoft Novell patent deal ( which even required the Free Software Foundation to add specific clauses into the new GNU GPL license )? Let me see …
You, Segio Casselle, are just *behaving* like just another run of the mill Microsoft Astroturfer.

Damn, I truly hate gutless people like yourself. Do some research and come up with at least an attempt at a logical argument, and stop this pathetic astroturf sniping.

David Mohring
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22David+Mohring%22+Linux&num=100
Aka NZheretic
http://www.google.com/search?q=NZheretic+Linux&num=100

I have repeatedly raised the issue of Microsoft software patents and Mono for *years*.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6833#comment-8120
Now four years since that above post, Microsoft is now using the same threat or take-this-license tactic used by the SCO Group when it tried to sell it’s Linux licenses.

Compare the situation with Mono with the legal issues with development and deployment with technologies based on the Java Standards. Sun has granted access to the specs, test kits and granted the full rights to develop competing products under the JSPA . Open Source Implementation of the Java Standards, such as the GNU GCJ compiler, GNU Classpath and Jboss are secured from being sued by SUN or any of the JCP members for just reimplementing the full and complete JCP’ed standards. That includes the right to use any technology that the JCP members hold patents on.

Now SUN is even GPLing their implementation of the Java runtime and libraries. It’s a much more secure future developing on top of a Java Standards based Foundation than it is with the legal minefield that MONO represents.

Hell, it’s even much more safer to use any other technology other than MONO. Choose Javascript, Python, Ruby , Perl ( the latter has decades of prior art ) or even plain C, C++ or even Common lisp.

Microsoft itself has sent the message, “USE MONO AND MICROSOFT WILL TREATEN YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH LAWSUITS”.

No amount of astroturf will undo the damage that Microsoft itself is doing to MONO.

Damn, I truly hate stupid people like yourself. Do something constructive for Linux, and stop this brainless proposition to shut down, probably, the best Linux distro out there.