Even OpenSUSE recognises drawbacks of Mono

"Given this, I was not surprised at the fuss over the appearance of Gnote, an application for notes, which was a rewrite of Tomboy. The difference? Tomboy is dependent on Mono. Gnote is not.

"(For the uninitiated, Mono is an attempt to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment; De Icaza claims this will pull Windows developers over to GNU/Linux. Something like my great-aunt who used to claim that she was regularly visited by the archangel Gabriel.)"

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