Mono Again: the Controversy That Won't Quit

"Here are some comments collected from here and there that I thought represented the major points in the endless Mono debates that are understandable to non-coders. I'm not a developer so I could be totally off the rails here, but these made a lot of sense to me and seem to clarify the issues.

"This is an oft-asked question:
"...why is Mono (and .NET, for that matter) getting taken seriously by developers? Does it really have such significant advantages over Java?"

"And this, I think, is a particularly good answer by our very own Grey Geek:"

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