A Guest Essay In Favor of Mono (#1)

“I speak for myself here – not for the Debian project, nor
Ubuntu, not for the Mono project, nor for my employer.

“I am a member of the Debian Mono Group, Debian CLI Applications
Team, and Debian CLI Libraries Team. I’ve been working on packaging
for the Mono stack and applications which make use of it in Ubuntu
(and Debian) for just under a year. And, fully aware of the flame
war, threats and personal attacks which will follow, I’m going to
take you up on your “invitation”. I speak for myself here – not for
the Debian project, nor Ubuntu, not for the Mono project, nor for
my employer.

“Your request was for “a calm presentation of why Mono is
desirable, why it is not a threat, and why it should be included in
Ubuntu by default”. I’ll answer these three questions individually,
then offer a general comment on your post, as well as the wider
“anti-Mono” movement. This message is GPG-signed to ensure it is
published unedited. The message as-sent will be made available at
http://retro.apebox.org/herewegoagain.txt to allow people to verify
authenticity signatures themselves.”

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