YESTERDAY we showed that Richard Stallman does not support .NET/Mono in GNU/Linux, not by default anyway. The following is an adaptation of Jose's comment, which he wanted us to share here. It nicely relates to something that we saw a couple of weeks ago.

Mono's dangers and its newest attempts to enter GNU/Linux distributions, desktop environments

As criticism of Novell's Mono keeps rising, Mono entanglements seemingly continue to spread further (even in a KDE distribution)

An analysis of Mono -- from Novell and Microsoft to Fedora

Mono defence and advocacy in social networks, courtesy of Novell/Mono staff

While some GNU/Linux projects are cleaning themselves up by removing Mono, Novell employees work on inserting Mono into other fine projects

There has been a lot of pro-Mono and anti-Mono arguments assaulting the community of late. The debate is not new but both sides have taken up arms since some distributions have decided to either remove Mono or include Mono by default.

Some more thoughts about Mono and also new developments (against Mono)

The relationship between Novell and Mono is explored again; Moonlight as a Web-imposed Mono enforcer