GNOME & Mono Made Love At Microsoft Last Week

[TheBlackCat]

Microsoft has shown no signs of patent agression towards mono, and if anything have been somewhat friendly to it (with the admittedly half-assed "community promise").

Isn't that exactly how "embrace, extend, extinguish" works? From my understanding, Microsoft has a long history of being "somewhat friendly" to things in order to destroy them.

So what if programs like banshee or tomboy use mono? worse case scenerio for users of those apps and ms releases some mythical patent-bomb, is they switch to an alternative app in the future?

Users are probably okay. Companies, not so much.

I can understand not wanting mono being heavily integrated in distros by default, but I don't get why so many people freak out when any random app happens to use mono, its paranoia fueled over-reaction. By all means, don't use mono apps if you don't like it, but there's no reason to hate on a mono hackfest

I think the problem is, how many "random apps" will it take before it becomes to much of a risk?