Microsoft will love you if you do.
However, before you do you should understand Microsoft's thinking about this topic. Jame Plamondon, although the first head of dirty tricks at Microsoft he has done a mea culpa, wrote a training manual for his troops entitled "Effective Evangelism".
http://platformevangelism.spaces.live.com/blog/cns !37F174267DC274C!152.entry
Under the paragraph entitled "Evangelism is War" he wrote:
Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat. Total victory ... is the universal adoption of our standards by developers, as this is an important step towards total victory for Microsoft itself: "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software."
MONO and Moonlight are BIG victories for Microsoft, because it keeps some developers and distros dancing to Microsoft's tune. In the future, after enough applications and distros have Microsoft technology buried too deep into their work to be easily removed without starting over, they should not be surprised when (not if) Microsoft pulls their plug by extending (sound familiar?) those two technologies with patented and proprietary components that leave them setting on a desert island unless they give up their FOSS freedom completely and move onto the Microsoft plantation. THAT would be the "total victory" that Microsoft strives for.
Fortunately, no current distro that I am familiar with depends on MONO for its essential activities. You can check you installation by using the "locate" command from a root console to search for "libmono". If you find files with those characters in their names use Synaptic (or what ever) to select those libraries and remove them. Then reboot. If you distro doesn't come back up then your distro is hooked. IF it does come back up then check for "Beagle" and other apps which use MONO and see if they still work. IF they do then you've missed some mono libraries. If they don't then remove them as well.
DON'T GIVE MICROSOFT ITS VICTORY!
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GreyGeek
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