It's hard to take CNET seriously. Megatrolls from CNET tend to include people like Don Reisinger, who generate outrageous headlines just to flame and receive attention. It's sad to see similar nonsense from Matt Asay. His suggestion is so absurd that it's hardly worth repeating and Savio Rodrigues has already swept it aside.

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.

Another look at the ways in which Microsoft markets itself with the help of former employees and submissive companies

Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There’s also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD.

How Mono can interfere with the GNU GPL, along with freedoms the GPL protects

Novell made more reliant on Microsoft, then spreads more of its patents-protected technology inside GNU/Linux

Miguel de Icaza brags about a Windows- and Mac OS-only Mono deployment/case study

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