An analogy explaining why Mono is the wrong way to go.

Mono striving to reach more parts of GNU/Linux; Moonlight revisited

In short, we are in an adversarial situation. Microsoft does not want us to succeed. Thus we cannot trust Microsoft, even if we'd like to, and must consider Mono based upon the question "What is the worst thing MS can reasonably do?". We can only trust Mono if we are convinced Microsoft doesn't have weasel room. The current situation appears, to me, to have lots of weasel room.

The role of Mono and Novell in fulfilling Microsoft's desire to change GNU/Linux.

My recent post about Mono was sincere, and Boycott Novell has the story about Debian wrong, but Gnome actually is pushing an alternative. Before I introduce you to the programming language Vala, let me give you some background on programming for Gnome as I understand it (note that I am not a programmer and haven't done anything real since the mid-80s).

Fedora considers Moonlight to be too much of a risk to Fedora

There are some hurdles to jump if you wish to make use of Novell's so-called Silverlight support (Microsoft's excuse, bogus cross platform)