Grouping of the latest news about Mono at Novell and developments at Canonical, some of which require more attention

More Mono news and changes in Novell's staff .

Assorted items about Mono and Moonlight .

This week's bits of analysis and news about Novell's time in court, including a win in California

Further analysis of what Novell's likely sale means when it comes to its patents and what it is currently doing to MeeGo, to which it added a Mono stack

Not just Mono but OOXML too is being used by Novell to promote and to spread Microsoft formats with software patents

Why there is increased pressure for GNOME and for other projects to love the patents-encumbered monkey (Mono); Black Duck uses IDG for more FUD

A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation - NOVELL'S (and Microsoft's) plan with Moonlight is something that we have warned about ever since Moonlight was first announced.

As some people here probably already know, I am no fan of Mono - not for technical reasons (mostly [3]), but simply for political ones. Specifically, I’m talking about so-called Software Patents, and even more importantly, precisely who owns those patents.