OVER THE years the Mono project got closer and closer to Microsoft, up to the point where Mono code was from Microsoft itself, bearing Microsoft software licences. The funding behind Mono was tied to Microsoft, too. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there is a lot more in our Wiki pages about Xamarin and the Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza. Based on articles from all the usual suspects (those who regularly give Mono some coverage), .NET lock-in is "cross-platform" (Paul Krill says so) and also, "Xamarin, the company driving the development of the Mono open-source .NET framework that is generally loved or hated by Phoronix readers, has announced a new partnership with Microsoft."
“De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard...”
--WikipediaMono is a Microsoft pet project. It is worth noting that Gnote, which replaces a Mono project that infected GNOME-based distributions, is almost superseding it now [1], so Mono seems to be on its way out of the GNU/Linux world.
According to Wikipedia, "De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard,[11][12][13] disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free software community.
"He has also been a longtime advocate of using Mono - a free software implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework - in GNOME.[14] This has raised much disagreement due to the patents that Microsoft holds on, and related to, the .NET Framework.
"For advocating Microsoft technologies, de Icaza was criticized by Richard Stallman on the Software Freedom Day 2009 as "Traitor to the Free Software Community"." ⬆
Related/contextual items from the news:
The GNOME developers announced a few days ago the immediate availability for download and testing of the first development release towards the Gnote 3.12 application.