Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.

It's time certain pro-MONOpolists faced the fact that Mono only exists to serve Microsoft. Take away Novell employees' contractual obligation to follow the company's agenda, and suddenly Mono becomes redundant.

Boycott Novell contributors explain why Mono and Moonlight are real risks

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

Novell's strategy has a lot to do with Mono and Moonlight, based on the technical officer

Novell-sponsored Mono software gets extended so as to make it interconnected with Microsoft Moonlight, a "forbidden" component by Red Hat's assessment

Novell does not eat its own dog food and Mono is still negligible

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.