"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:"