Here's the relevant link repackaged to get around the parens problem. http://tinyurl.com/4epkag
Heh. A site written in a lisp-variant has trouble with parens. :-)
Could someone please actually respond to this comment? It was downmodded, but checking the url at Wikipedia (his url gets screwed up because it contains parens)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Mono_and_Microsoft.E2.80.99s_patents
And it looks like the Windows Forms and such stuff may be a patent problem.
On the other hand, "may be a patent problem" is an appropriate description of any recently written software.
I would expect Microsoft to fulfill its "Linux violates n Microsoft patents" threat before it does the same for Mono: Each programmer using Mono enhances the .NET ecosystem, while each Linux installation degrades Windows' market share.
But the licensing/patent agreement between Novell and Microsoft only applies to Novell and its customers. Microsoft reserves the right to sue anyone else for violating its patents. Unfortunately I think Novell got little from this deal. And worse yet, I think it'd be irresponsible for any organization (other than Novell or its customers) to develop anything mission critical on Mono. See Wikipedia's entry for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)