Mono

This page contains links to the many posts that we have about Mono. We also have separate pages about Xamarin, Mono Applications, Miguel de Icaza, and Moonlight.

2016
Xamarin Quits Pretending to be Separate From Microsoft, All Staff to Work Directly for Microsoft

2015

 * The Threat of Mono is Not Entirely Over Yet

2014

 * Microsoft-backed Mono is Still Trying to Spread to More Linux-Based Platforms

2013

 * Latest Debian GNU/Linux Installs Gnote When Mono is Removed
 * Mono Can Now be Treated Like a Microsoft Project
 * Canonical Neglects Tomboy (Mono)
 * Mono Dries Up

August 2012

 * Patent Traps in Linux; Mono Increasingly Developed by Microsoft
 * Mono and Xamarin After Cash Infusion From Former Microsoft Executives

July 2012

 * Microsoft ‘Community’ Takes Control of Mono, Passes Belated Bribes to Mono Developers
 * Pinta Considered Dead, Mono Goes to Microsoft

November 2011

 * Canonical/Ubuntu Considers Dumping Mono From Ubuntu LTS
 * Mono Bug Persists in Ubuntu GNU/Linux

September 2011

 * Monocalypse
 * OpenSUSE Drops Java But Not Mono
 * Mono for Android is Proprietary, Even Tomdroid Dodges It

August 2011

 * SUSE and Xamarin: Helping Microsoft Tax GNU/Linux (Google Should Secede From the Funding)
 * .NET Gets Called a Mistake, But Not in Xamarin

July 2011

 * Microsoft Development Surveys and Microsoft Mono
 * Xamarin Gets Permission From Novell But Not From Microsoft
 * Xamarin and Mono a Dead End
 * Xamarin Has a Trademarks Problem
 * Emulating Microsoft is Good for Microsoft
 * Don’t Support Mono

June 2011

 * Xamarin/Mono Already Abandoned by Developers
 * MonoDroid and MonoTouch Are Assimilation to .NET
 * Techrights Was Right About Mono Being Open Core, Now Miguel de Icaza Admits It
 * Foggy and Binary Future (If Any) for Mono
 * Microsoft Partner Attachmate Keeps Monopoly Over Mono ‘IP’ After Microsoft Aided Sale
 * Microsoft Proponents Promote Xamarin While Microsoft is Abandoning .NET/Mono

May 2011

 * As Mono Runs Out of Money Developers Avoid It
 * Xamarin CEO Has Microsoft Employment History
 * DistroWatch: Fedora Keeps Mono in Rawhide
 * Funding Behind Xamarin is Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza; Fresh Concerns About Attachmate
 * SD Times: “Attachmate (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) buys Novell. Microsoft gives gobs of money to Attachmate. Attachmate whacks the Mono team.”
 * Xamarin Analysed
 * Mono Company Registered Near Microsoft (Bellevue)
 * Jack Schofield Accused of “Lack of Professionalism” for Daemonising Mono Sceptics
 * The Threat of Mono on Android and on Ubuntu is Not Totally Gone Yet
 * Microsoft Infiltrator Wants Canonical to Foster Mono as Canonical CTO (Who Opposed Mono) Leaves
 * Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
 * Mono Development Canned (Updated: Everyone Laid Off)
 * What Google Should Do Now That Android is Being Poisoned by Novell (With Mono) and Sued by Microsoft

April 2011

 * Attachmate and Mono
 * Mono is Microsoft
 * Ubuntu Without the Mono
 * Debian 6 Claimed to be Harmed by Mono, Ubuntu Suffers From Banshee Problems
 * .NET and More Microsoft APIs Pushed Into GNU/Linux by Microsoft MVPs and FUD Spreaders (Against Linux)

March 2011

 * Why Microsoft’s Guy Miguel de Icaza Pushes for C# at Apple, Which is Not Successful
 * Novell Rips Red Hat Off and Rips the Community Apart, Brings Microsoft and Patent Tax Into it
 * Miguel de Icaza is at Microsoft, Attacking Ubuntu GNU/Linux

February 2011

 * Promoting OpenSUSE is Not the Same as Promoting Mono
 * One Last Sellout From Novell (MPEG-LA, Microsoft Patent Traps)
 * Simon Phipps: “Mentioning Mono in my article was an interesting experience. It was like mentioning Scientology…”
 * Microsoft Bans Mono
 * Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
 * Miguel de Icaza Helps Show He is an Enemy of GNU/Linux
 * With Novell’s Intervention, MeeGo Now Poisoned by Mono
 * Poisoning Mobile Linux With Microsoft Staff and Mono
 * Banshee’s Developer Quits Novell

January 2011

 * From UNIX Battles to .NET Battles
 * Keeping Unity Mono Free
 * The “Mono Lobby” Explained by Neil Richards
 * Adrian Malacoda on Apathy Towards Mono
 * Richard Stallman: “The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents”
 * Monofree Helps Remove and Block Mono, Just Like Mononono
 * Mono in ‘Damage Control’
 * Linux Mint Founder Does Not Follow Ubuntu’s Banshee Travesty
 * OMG!Ubuntu! Likes Mono
 * Mono Boosters in Ubuntu Have Conflicts of Interest, LibreOffice Under Similar Threat
 * Change Happens (Consensus Regarding Mono)

December 2010

 * Wayne Borean: Mono Should Come With “Danger – Microsoft Inside” Label
 * .NET is Microsoft’s Patent Poison Pill Inside Any GNU/Linux Distribution With Mono
 * Mono Lie of the Week: AttachMSFT’s Banshee is Safe
 * Mono Under AttachMSFT Spreads Microsoft Languages, Opposition Bullied
 * Canonical is Hiring Mono Developers, Losing COO

November 2010

 * Bad Decision Made at Canonical Regarding Media Player
 * Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Does Not Know What Will Happen to Mono
 * Mono is for Microsoft and Microsoft F# Loves Miguel de Icaza
 * Mono Advocacy is Deluded, Avoids the Facts and Personally Attacks Critics Instead

October 2010

 * Canonical Probably to Put in Next Ubuntu GNU/Linux Mono Parts Which Microsoft Disallows Free of Lawsuits/Charge
 * The Source on Rejecting Mono, Which Earns a Room at FOSDEM 2011
 * Allegation: Novell Has “Profit Motive for Pushing Mono Everywhere”
 * GNOME and Mono Meet Through Zeitgeist
 * How Mono Helps Microsoft DirectX, With Contribution From VMB_ware
 * “OMGUbuntu Makes a Dig at Mono?”
 * To Mono Leadership/Development Team, “A Mono Success Story of Biblical Proportions” Means No GNU/Linux Support
 * Mono as a Whole Appears to be a Patent Trap
 * Mono is Not a GNU/Linux Project and It Keeps Feeding Those Who Bite the GNU/Linux Hand
 * OpenSUSE’s Former and Existing Community Managers Promote Mono Patent Trap
 * Smeegol Linux Has a Mono Problem
 * Joint Microsoft/Novell Release of Mono, Partly With Microsoft Licences, Patents, and Even Copyrights
 * Mobbyists Love Mono
 * The Redmond-Associated Press is Promoting Mono

September 2010

 * Mono Liars - Quick clarifications regarding a smear campaign that’s waged against Techrights by Mono proponents
 * Nokia, Zeitgeist, MeeGo/Maemo, and Moonlight/Mono Threat
 * Next Mono is Coming With Microsoft Code, Microsoft Licences
 * Mono Outperformed by .NET Sometimes, Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Dumps Novell’s Banshee
 * Don’t Touch NoTouch (MonoTouch)
 * Embedding ‘Microsoft Tax’ in Linux, Using Mono
 * “Q: Why is it written in Mono/C#? A: Because I hate freedom.”

August 2010

 * Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted)
 * Mono Accessibility for Microsoft
 * OMG!Mono! (Mono boosting comes from OMG!Ubuntu! (as usual), but the original source of Mono development is drying up)
 * Mono in GNOME Zeitgeist
 * Microsoft’s ‘Android Tax’ Shows Why Mono Should be Treated as Threat
 * Novell/Mono Could be Sued by Oracle; Taleo Puts Sun’s Former CEO and Former Novell Employee in the Board
 * Novell Connects Mono and Fog Computing (Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ Included)
 * Novell Spreads .NET, Receives Backing From Microsoft Boosters
 * Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat
 * Patent Threat Banshee Gets Hooks Into Ubuntu 10.10
 * Novell/Microsoft Mono Poison (Banshee) Put in Ubuntu 10.10 NBE by Default
 * Making Money for Increasing Microsoft Threat to GNU/Linux
 * Novell’s Promotion of Mono and Visual Studio Tools Comes Under Scrutiny

July 2010

 * How Novell’s Mono Mob Operates
 * Richard Stallman Reiterates Threat of Mono, Wikipedia Censored by Mono Boosters
 * Mono Demoted to “Proprietary Software” Status
 * Microsoft Co-Develops Mono With Novell

June 2010

 * Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)
 * SUSE MeeGo is About Mono and OpenSUSE Makes Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux
 * Microsoft Certified Partner Supports Mono
 * Mono Cleanup (Ubuntu GNU/Linux follows the footsteps of projects like Fedora and sweeps Novell’s Mono aside)
 * Novell Turns MeeGo Into Another Ballnux
 * Novell is Knowingly Seeding GNU/Linux, MeeGo and Android With Microsoft Patents

May 2010

 * MeeGo is Hijacked by the Mono Team
 * Novell: The Copy of a Copy
 * By Pushing Mono Into Android, Novell Puts Microsoft Before Freedom
 * The Microsoft/Novell Mono Lobby
 * Attempts to Push Mono Into Awn
 * Microsoft/Novell Faking “Open Source” and Pushing .NET Into Web Browsers

April 2010

 * Keeping Mono Out of Ubuntu 10.04 and Android; HTC Sued Again for Software Patents
 * Adobe Trash Player and Novell/Microsoft Mono
 * Docky is Mono
 * Why Mono is Technically Inferior for Development and Why Microsoft Keeps Promoting It
 * Apple’s Latest Mischiefs, Ignores Mono’s Pleas
 * Canonical is Already Aware of the Problem With Mono
 * Ubuntu Removes gThumb and Adds More Mono
 * The Future of Mono and MonoTouch is Uncertain
 * The GIMP is Fine, But Novell Staff Wants It Replaced by .NET
 * Apple Treats Mono Like It Treats Flash; GNU/Linux Should Too
 * Red Hat Converts C# Code to Java While Apple Outright Rejects C#
 * SchoolOS to Remove Mono, Apple ‘Blocks’ MonoTouch
 * Novell Dominates Almost a Third of GNOME Foundation Board, Including the Director
 * Mono Team Develops More Windows Software and Mocks Critics
 * Ubuntu Removes Codec Patent Trap, But What About Mono?

March 2010

 * The ‘Conspiracy’ of Mono
 * If You Distrust Mono, Then You Are Called a “Microsoft Hater”, “Paranoid”, and “Conspiracy Theorist”
 * SD Times Removes Miguel de Icaza’s Admission That Mono Has Patent Problems and de Icaza Mocks Jeremy Allison
 * Mono, the Monopolist’s Sidekick (Microsoft’s companions help the company either influence other companies or take over their agenda, Mono being the tool by which .NET gets injected into rivals)
 * Señor de Icaza Meets Other Microsoft MVPs
 * Microsoft MVP de Icaza: Microsoft “Shot the .NET Ecosystem in the Foot” Because of Patent Threats
 * Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)
 * Mono and Novell Influence Increases in the GNOME Foundation
 * Ubuntu One Adds Mono Bindings
 * Moonlight Disappoints
 * Despite (or Because of) Microsoft's Patent Extortion, Novell Continues to Focus on Mono
 * Ubuntu 10.04 Increases Mono Dependency

February 2010

 * Despite Failure (Rejection by Users and Developers), Novell Carries on Spreading Mono and Moonlight
 * Novell is Already Poisoning MeeGo With Microsoft Trojan Horses
 * Novell’s Mac-only Mono and Some Notes About Ubuntu
 * The “Microsoft Everywhere” Vision of Novell
 * What Apple Teaches Us About Mono and Moonlight
 * The Latest from Microsoft’s Ambassador to Linux (MVP Miguel de Icaza) and Other FSF-Hostile Folks
 * Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By
 * Novell/Microsoft and the Funding of Pinta’s (Mono) Developer
 * Mark Shuttleworth: “If Windows API Becomes the Default on Linux Then What is the Point of Linux?”
 * More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell (another Mono program from Novell)
 * The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell! ("A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans")
 * Sleeping with Mono - Assorted items about Mono and Moonlight
 * Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Google and What It Teaches Us About Mono

January 2010

 * Novell and Freedom Are Incompatible ("Novell’s obsession with Microsoft (and even Apple) is highlighted using the latest evidence")
 * On Novell, Ubuntu, Microsoft and Mono
 * Novell Promotes Apple, .NET
 * What the Yahoo! Deal Means for Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Mono)
 * Novell Spreads Microsoft Inside GNU/Linux Whereas LINA Spreads GNU/Linux Inside Windows
 * Humanity to Others’ Agenda (Analysis of some of Canonical’s recent moves, which give rise to Novell’s Mono and proprietary software)
 * Indian Activists Fight Back Against Microsoft Patents as Jeremy Allison Repeats Warning, Cites Mono as Patent Trap
 * New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
 * Bug #1 is Not “Market Share”
 * With Mono Clearly on Microsoft’s Side, Another Call for Ubuntu to Move Mono to ‘Restricted’
 * When Mono Gets Treated Similarly to Skype (Proprietary)
 * “Mixed Source” and “Half Pregnant” (Mono as Open Core)
 * Microsoft Betrays Another ‘Partner’, This Time MySQL (mention of Sqlite#)
 * Miguel de Icaza Groomed by Microsoft with MVP Award
 * Locked Out of Mono Blogs, by Silverlight
 * Novell Repeats Mistakes of WordPerfect, This Time with Mono
 * Novell’s Christmas Presents for Microsoft
 * Microsoft on GNU/Linux Clones of Microsoft: “We’d Have to Look to the Protection Offered Under Intellectual Property (sic) Law”

December 2009

 * DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing” (and discussion about lessons for Mono/Novell)
 * gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
 * Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux
 * Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop)
 * Microsoft’s Moonlight “Promise” Full of Holes
 * The Lies About Moonlight Carry on, MSBBC to Block Free Software Users Again
 * “The Moonlight/Mono World Does Not Work That Way Though.”
 * Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux
 * Taking Mono Off the Menu
 * Accurate Coverage of Novell ("Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell")
 * Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
 * Microsoft Gave Moonlight “Blessings” in 2007
 * Avoid Mono to Put Back the *NIX in GNU/Linux
 * Gnote is Alive, New Release Available ("If Ubuntu is looking to save disk space, which it does, then it should remove Mono (and Tomboy), not the GIMP.")
 * Mono Bullies ("Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely")
 * Less OpenSUSE, More Microsoft Software at Novell

November 2009

 * F-Spot (Mono) Can Still be Removed from Next Ubuntu
 * The Case for a Mono-Free Ubuntu and Novell’s Case for a Mono Fee Ubuntu
 * Salivating Over Silverlight ("If Novell’s vice president is “droolingly” Microsoft’s, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?")
 * With gThumb and Gnote in Ubuntu 10.04, Default Install Would be Leaner, Mono Free
 * Telepathy a Plugin Away from Mono (Non-ECMA Parts)
 * Mono: Deaf to the Facts
 * Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET
 * Moonlight and Mono Not GNU/Linux Projects Anymore
 * Microsoft Exposes .NET Patent Trap to More Potential Copyright Issues
 * OpenSUSE 11.2 is Open to Microsoft Lawsuits Because of Mono
 * Is the Mono Project Run Partly by Microsoft Now?
 * Can GNOME 3.0 Avoid Mono Despite GNOME Foundation Director Being Novell Employee?
 * At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”? ("Novell’s latest moves clearly show a technical convergence with Microsoft, so why treat these companies separately?")
 * Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs
 * Novell and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Boost Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Linux Patent Tax
 * Mono and GNOME 3.0
 * Gnote Would Fit Nicely in Ubuntu 10.04 (Default Install)

October 2009

 * The Price of Mono
 * Mono and Fraud
 * Massive New Migration to Free Software in French Authorities; Gendarmerie Should Delete Mono
 * Novell Uses IDG to Promote Mono
 * Banshee is Novell, Mono, and ‘Forbidden’ Microsoft Software Patents
 * Mono Programs Removed from gNewSense
 * Mono, Open Core, and Other Bizarre Forms of Open Source
 * FSFE Adds Weight to Call for Mono Resistance
 * “Mono Mania” Carries on and Evolution Includes Mono
 * Simon Phipps on “Monomaniacs”, More Reactions to Jeremy Allison’s Mono Prognosis
 * Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software
 * Mono’s #1 Problem is Not Software Patents
 * Stereotype of Copying the Competition
 * Novell VP Brushes Off Microsoft’s Attacks on GNU/Linux, Promotes .NET
 * Microsoft Interjects Itself into Free Software Using Novell
 * Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn (Groklaw on Mono)

September 2009

 * Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and More
 * Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent
 * Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
 * With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?
 * Richard Stallman is Not the Bad Guy
 * Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
 * Alan Cox in 2002: “Microsoft Has Publicly Stated That it Has Patents on Critical Parts of .NET and Will Enforce Them”
 * Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
 * gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft
 * Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
 * More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
 * Is Mono WISE? (WISE = Windows Interface Source Environment)
 * Unrest in OpenSUSE Grows, Mono Faces Opposition Also
 * How Novell is Monetising FUD ("Now they embrace and extend Linus’ own baby, Git, using C#/GitSharp.")

August 2009

 * Another Warning Sign for Mono Proponents: NTFS and FAT
 * Both Developers and Users Are Not Interested in Mono
 * More Monkey and MonkeyLight Business
 * Trusting Mono While Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux Left and Right
 * Moonlight and Mono Lack Demand
 * Novell Fails with Moonlight
 * Mono Team Puts Microsoft’s GPL-incompatible Licence and Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux
 * Why Sqlite Sharp Can Harm GNU/Linux
 * Novell Ignores Microsoft’s Community Promise Limitations
 * Befriending the Sworn Enemy
 * More Novell, Microsoft, Software Patents, and Mono Insults
 * Monopoly and Monocrisy ("New example of Mono hypocrisy")
 * Microsoft .NET Tries to Piggyback OLPC, Novell Helps the Same Cause

July 2009

 * Why Microsoft Hates Java and How Novell’s Mono Helps Microsoft Fight It
 * Time to Drop the Word “Zealot” from Software Debates? (on "Pro-mono Zealotry")
 * Novell Still Serves Microsoft with Mono
 * If C# is Declining, Do We Need Mono Anymore?
 * Mono Roundup: Suppression of Speech, Extension, and Deception
 * Why Mono Redefines Free Software
 * New F-Spot/Banshee Ties Pose a Microsoft Patent Threat
 * Why Novell and Ubuntu Suppress Opposition of Mono
 * More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell ("A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation")
 * Video: Stallman Says C# Only for Running Existing Programs (Updated: Ogg)
 * Free Software Foundation Discourages Dependence on Mono, Dismisses Microsoft Community Promise
 * What Nessus Teaches About Mono
 * Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
 * Mono Applications Get Integrated with Microsoft Moonlight
 * Another Angle on Personal Attacks from Mono
 * “I Am Not Afraid of…”
 * Is Mono’s Latest Strategy to Vilify Richard Stallman?
 * Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
 * Mono Roundup: Still Dangerous, Still Not Acceptable
 * Reader’s Article: Microsoft’s Empty “Community Promise” (Mono) is a Sham
 * Microsoft Confirms Mono is Not Safe, Stallman Agrees
 * Poll: 62% Don’t Trust Microsoft on Mono
 * Who Promotes Mono? Microsoft and Novell

June 2009

 * More People Say “No” to Mono, Including the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
 * Mono Proponents Do Not Address the Real Questions
 * GNOME’s Evolution Proceeds as Planned?
 * Microsoft and Novell Still Fight for .NET Inside GNU/Linux
 * Responses to Richard Stallman’s Verdict on Mono
 * Reader’s Article: Mono as a One-way Bridge (to Windows)
 * Why free software shouldn’t depend on Mono or C# — by Richard M. Stallman
 * Latest Lies and Denials from Mono Advocates, Microsoft
 * Microsoft on “Embrace and Extend”, the “Windows API Franchise”
 * Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”
 * Open/SUSE and .NET
 * Reader’s Article: Mono and (Anti)Trust
 * Please Don’t Replace the GIMP with F-Spot (Mono)
 * Whisper Campaigns Against Gnote ("Response to disinformation about Gnote, a substitute to the Mono-encumbered Tomboy")
 * http://boycottnovell.com/2009/06/19/mono-poll-and-news/
 * New Push for Gnote in Ubuntu by Default ("Another step towards abolishment of Mono as by-default component")
 * Debian is Not Including Mono by Default, Yet
 * Case Study: The Harms of Mono
 * Signs of Mono Unrest, Legal Issues
 * Criticism of Mono Now “Disappearing”
 * SUSE Interoperability and Mono Good for Microsoft: Easier Migration to Windows
 * In Fedora, Tomboy and Banshee Depend on Winforms ("Banshee brings Winforms with it after all (not part of ECMA reference)")
 * Real-time Linux Hacker Bill Huey Called the Mono Plan “Misguided”
 * Rally to Put More Mono in Ubuntu Backfires, Users Left Concerned by Mono
 * Novell Develops for Windows Development Tools
 * Mono Critique Almost a Taboo in Ubuntu Forums, Ideas, Bugs, and Mailing Lists
 * Why Mono (and Moonlight) is Microsoft’s Embrace
 * Ubuntu is Censoring Opposition to Mono by Default
 * Microsoft is Using Mono and MonoDevelop to Leverage Windows and .NET
 * How Novell Harms GNU/Linux Programming
 * Fedora Leaves Mono Out, OpenSUSE Has Second Thoughts, and So Should Ubuntu
 * “I Believe Gnote is Also Slated for Inclusion by Default in Debian and Ubuntu”
 * Ubuntu Users Plead to Keep Novell’s Banshee Out (and Other Miscellaneous Mono News)
 * GNOME Zeitgeist Decides Not to Go with Mono
 * Easy-LTSP Dumps Mono/C#, Rewritten in Python Instead
 * Red Hat Replaces Tomboy with Gnote, Removes Mono Dependency
 * Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart
 * Does Ubuntu Forums Threaten to Ban Opposition to Mono?

May 2009

 * More on Novell’s Finances: SUSE and Mono Failures
 * Gnote Can Save GNOME from Mono
 * Reddit Accommodated by Mono Boosters, Including Novell Employees
 * Gnote’s Objection to Mono and Microsoft’s ‘Embrace’ of Java
 * Gnote Explodes in Popularity
 * Ubuntu’s Mono Booster Calls it “Monobuntu”
 * Licence to Use Microsoft Moonlight and Mono Not Possible?
 * Saving SELinux from Mono Before It’s Too Late?
 * Mono Wants to be Everywhere
 * Gnote Enters Ubuntu GNU/Linux (Karmic) ("Gnote, a Mono-free replacement for Tomboy, has already entered Fedora and Debian. Now it is also in Ubuntu.")
 * Gnote Enters Debian, UbuntuOne Has No Mono
 * Canonical Hires Noveller, Job Probably Won’t Include Mono
 * GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users” ("A lot of Mono and Moonlight coverage is still coming from the Microsoft-faithful crowd")
 * Who Covers Mono Again? Microsoft.
 * Ubuntu Makes Novell’s Mono a “Master Of The Universe” (MOTU)
 * MonoDevelop Moves to Windows, Gnote Comes to GNU/Linux (as Default)
 * New Version of Gnote Released, Already Earns New Users Who Boast Mono Relief
 * Red Hat: We Should Probably Look at Switching out Tomboy with Gnote in the Fedora 12 Panel Configuration
 * Novell Vice President Loves Linux Hater, Who Attacks KDE
 * Subject: (PATCH) Add CONFIG_MONO_NO_CREATE WITH_MS_PATENTS option
 * Gnote Enters Fedora
 * The Path to Mono-free GNOME-based Distributions is Foreseeable
 * Gnote is a Lot Faster and a Lot Lighter Than Tomboy
 * Gnote Finds Its Way Into Debian and Ubuntu?

April 2009

 * Gnote Supports 6 More Languages, Does Not Support C# ("For those who are looking to detoxify their GNU/Linux distribution which contains GNOME, Gnote 0.3.0 is finally out.")
 * Microsoft-funded Media Player to Become Ubuntu’s Default?
 * Parody: BN Announces Community Novell Review: Patents Cited in Future Mono-Targeted Litigations to be Placed on BN Defenders Wiki
 * Novell Quietly Releases SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension as a Product
 * From “Microsoft Religion” to “Mono Religion”
 * Announcement: Mono-Free Tomboy Replacement (Gnote) Releases Version 0.2.0
 * Tomboy is Afraid of Gnote, Its Mono-free Sibling
 * Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
 * “Desperately Seeking Patent Tax” (Microsoft, Novell, and Mono)
 * Novell is “Impressed” by Miguel de Icaza… Well, So is Microsoft
 * Project of the Day: GNote ("The trailblazing route away from Mono seems clearer thanks to GNote")
 * The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited
 * Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’
 * Microsoft Uses Novell, Likewise, and Ignorance to Market Its Products
 * Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL ("Here is a recent video where de Icaza expresses his feelings about Microsoft.")
 * (Mo)NoDevelop is Liked by Microsoft and Novell, Not by the GNU/Linux Crowd
 * Microsoft and Novell Still Grow Closer

March 2009

 * Novell Releases Poisonware Factory 2.0 (MonoDevelop)
 * TomTom Caves; Will Microsoft Start Charging for Mono Next?
 * The Mono Trap
 * SLED 11 is About Microsoft .NET
 * Microsoft Novell Tag-Team ("With Novell’s hand in the code, Novell products like Mono continue treading towards KDE.")
 * Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together
 * Novell Happy About KDE Bindings for Mono and .NET
 * Kodak Groks Mono After Large Investment from Bill Gates, Novell Props up Silverlight
 * Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid (Microsoft) Mouthpiece” ("Backlash against Novell; Ubuntu is rumoured to be considering abolishment of Mono")
 * At Novell, Polluting GNU/Linux with Microsoft Technologies is “Taking Over the World”
 * Novell Becomes Closer to Microsoft — Abolish Mono and Moonlight
 * Intellectual Novell Property in GNU/Linux
 * Novell Committed to Microsoft Technologies, But Not so Much to Free Desktop (RadeonHD)

February 2009

 * Novell Pollutes GNU/Linux, Microsoft Almost Pollutes ODF
 * Novell Spreads More .NET in Mac OS X, Windows, Leads to Patent Trouble
 * Novell Tumbles, But Not the ‘Novellsoft’ Part of the Company
 * Novell Enables Microsoft Distributions
 * Quote of the Day: “Mono Simply Ratifies .Net”
 * Novell’s Jaffe on Novell’s Linux Strategy: .NET, Mono, Moonlight, Nothing About OpenSUSE
 * New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’
 * Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE
 * Androids ‘Bricked’ by Microsoft Mono
 * Miguel Goes to Microsoft
 * How Novell Helps Microsoft Attack GNU/Linux (Except for SUSE)

January 2009

 * Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on Mono
 * When Mono Helps Microsoft Windows and Excludes GNU/Linux
 * How Novell Leverages Microsoft .NET to Market Itself
 * What Miguel & Novell Do to GNOME
 * Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices
 * How Microsoft Really Feels About .NET in Linux/UNIX
 * Microsoft SVP on GNU/Linux and .NET
 * Microsoft: Use .NET to Fight GNU/Linux, Use Patents Against Clones (Mono)
 * Quick Mention: Mono Goes Fighting Java on Android
 * Novell’s Mono: Imitating a Failing Technology

December 2008

 * Quick Mention: KDE and .NET
 * What Samba Can Teach Us About Mono
 * Mono a Second-Class Citizen Even on GNU/Linux
 * Mono Fans Owe an Apology: The Evolution of Mono Continues
 * The Threat of Mono as Basis of Applications (or: “Why GIMP is Different”)
 * Mono is Only for Novell, Says Microsoft Ally
 * Microsoft Tries to ‘Surrogate’ Free Software with Windows-only, Patent-encumbered, Microsoft-controlled ‘Open Source’
 * OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows ("The Mono effort has also led to a Novell effort called Moonlight which is an attempt to enable Microsoft’s Silverlight media framework on Linux.")
 * Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED)
 * Why the OpenSUSE FAQ Misses the Point
 * Microsoft Wants One Throat to Choke ("Microsoft’s plan is to group everything inside Novell and under Mono (.NET), then treating GNU/Linux users as though they are jailed in a pen (technical and legal vulnerability).")
 * Novell Builds Bridges… for Microsoft to ‘Steal’ Open Source
 * Mono Quote to Bear in Mind (“I saw that internally inside Microsoft many times when I was told to stay away from supporting Mono in public. They reserve the right to sue”)
 * Beware the Mono

November 2008

 * Mono Critique Goes a Long Way Back
 * Mono Tries to Enter KDE
 * While the World is Asleep, Mono with Microsoft-patented WinForms Slips into Ubuntu 9.04
 * Jose Explains Why Not Mono
 * Microsoft, With Novell’s Help, Locks GNU/Linux Users Out of Innovation
 * Microsoft Willing to Sell Us ‘Protection’ for Use of Mono
 * Reader’s Post: The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono
 * Calling Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenMoko to Resolve Mono Problem, Not Ignore It
 * Quick Mention: Removing Microsoft/Novell from Ubuntu 8.10
 * Monoment (sic) of Novell’s Demise
 * Request for Mono Licence from Microsoft: Ascending to Nicos Tsilas

October 2008

 * Reader’s Proposal for Combating Free Software-hostile Patents
 * Quick Mention: When Mono Messes Up Your Server…
 * Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Novell
 * SUSE Linux to be Powered by More Microsoft .NET?
 * Microsoft Makes New Friends in Open Source World — for Windows, .NET, Silverlight
 * On Mixed Source, Mono, and Other Forms of ‘Piracy’
 * Microsoft Does Not Reply to Request for Mono Patent Protection
 * Microsoft Pressures for WAMP While Novell Helps ‘Infect’ AMP ("“[It's] all written in .NET, just for patent ambush purposes and infection,” says one knowledgeable reader. Only Novell customers are said to be 'protected' and, according to this reader, “all the “free tools” that Microsoft releases are strangely written in .NET for infection purposes.”")
 * The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
 * Mono Watch: Where Is It All Coming From?
 * Novell Incorporated: Convergence of Windows and GNU/Linux Since 2006
 * Marcel Gagné on Mono, OOXML, and More
 * Novell’s Linux Poison® (Mono) Reaches 2.0, Contains Extra Cyanide (WinForms)
 * BoycottNovell Goes Shopping for Mono Patent ‘Protection’
 * Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus

September 2008

 * Experiments in KDE and Mono
 * Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part II
 * Guest Post: Why Not Mono – Part I
 * Microsoft Acquires Novell(’s Direction)
 * Microsoft Admitted Mono is a Patent Trap Back in 2006 (Updated)
 * ECMA and Mono: It’s Complicated
 * Reader’s Take on Microsoft, Novell, and Miguel de Icaza
 * At Novell, Software Development is Microsoft Cloning (MicroFOSS)

August 2008

 * Interlude: What Mono Could be All About
 * Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company
 * He Who Imitates Microsoft Will Suffer from Its Flaw
 * Quick Mention: Miguel de Icaza Loves .NET, Dislikes GNU GPL
 * Novell’s Hack Week: Mono, Ports to Windows, Mac OS X
 * Who is Promoting Mono Anyway?
 * Mono ‘Guard’ Found in Ubuntu Forums
 * Mono: ECMA Does Not Make It Safe
 * Miguel de Icaza on ‘Superb’ Microsoft Lock-ins
 * No Mono in Fedora 10 (“Cambridge”) Live CD
 * While Everyone is Sleeping, Mono Sneaks Into KDE
 * Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono
 * Mono Spreads, Fails
 * Groklaw: Microsoft and Novell Poison OpenOffice.org; Watch Out, KDE
 * Another Reason to Avoid Mono: Security
 * Novell’s Mono in Microsoft’s Clouds
 * Of Microsoft’s Plans for GNU/Linux and Tinfoil Hats
 * Even Microsoft Uses Free Software, So Why Does Novell Harness Microsoft?
 * Novuel’s de Icaza: The Man Who Gives GNU/Linux to Microsoft

July 2008

 * Mono is Too Controversial for Debian
 * Embracing and Extending SVN — the Microsoft Way

June 2008

 * Why Is Mono in Fedora? Nobody Knows… It’s Possibly a Secret
 * Novell Brings Mono and OpenOffice.org Even Closer
 * Reader’s Thoughts on Mark Shuttleworth’s Response (Regarding Microsoft Codecs)
 * Software Patent Deals, Mono, and Other Legal Timebombs
 * Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux ("In other words — and also to sum this up in a way — Novell received Microsoft’s endorsement and money in exchange for the crown in the datacentre, higher priority to OOXML as a document format, and .NET as the API of choice. Why again do some people still support Novell?")

May 2008

 * Novell and Mono: The Kiss of Death to Free Software
 * Reader’s Article: Novell, Mono and RAND
 * OOXML and Mono: Not So Different After All
 * Pondering Novell Mono and DRM
 * Op-Ed: Novell Pollutes Free Software (and GNU/Linux) in Preparation for Microsoft Attacks
 * Mono Developers: From .NET Boosting to Java Bashing?
 * Quick Mention: “Make Your Distro Free of Miguel de Icaza’s Junk Code”
 * Mono “..and still nothing on whether WinForms is legally safe to use.”
 * Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL
 * A Former Ximian Employee Finds Greener Pastures (Red Hat)

April 2008

 * Novell+Ximian=SLED.NET, Sun+Java=SuSE GNU/Linux/Solaris
 * Novell and GNOME Help Microsoft and .NET’s Fight Against Sun and Java
 * Mono-free GNOME: “Roughly the Same Functionality”
 * SpeC#ulation: Tipping Point for GNOME?
 * Why Again is the Novell/Microsoft Deal So Darn Ugly?

March 2008

 * Quote of the Day: On Google Sponsorship of Microsoft’s .NET
 * Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop
 * MonoDevelop in the Press, Which Totally Misses the Point
 * Is Novell’s Strategy .NET Software on Top of GNU/Linux?
 * Novell’s Mono and Microsoft’s Plot to Use Mono/.NET to ‘Punish’ GNU/Linux
 * Member of the GNOME Foundation on Tomboy, Mono, GNOME
 * Novell Releases the Code Factory Which Threatens Free Software
 * The Microsoft-Novell Employee Swap, Intersection
 * A Letter from a Reader, About Miguel de Icaza
 * Miguel Asked for an Explanation, Full Disclosure About Novell/Microsoft Deal
 * Is Mono Now Officially a Software Patent Trap?
 * Quick Mention: Miguel’s Eureka Moment
 * Will Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets Soon Be Infected by Mono, XAML? What About Qt?
 * Novell Loves .NET, Copyrights Code

February 2008

 * Novell-Microsoft Assimilation, Phase II
 * Quick Mention: Novell’s Mono Evolves and Approaches Evolution
 * Quick Mention: Novell+Mono Discussion
 * Novell’s Mono in Fedora 8
 * The Overlooked Issue of Development with .NET in GNU/Linux
 * Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu
 * Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents
 * OpenSUSE Rants, KDE Mono Bindings
 * How GNU/Linux Gets Contaminated with Software Patents from the Back Door
 * What Does Samsung’s Linux Deal Mean to Android and Mono?
 * Closer Than You Think: Microsoft and Novell Collaborations
 * Novell: The .NET Company

January 2008

 * Wake Up Already, GNOME, Please Wake Up
 * Quote of the Day: Slashdot Users on Novell’s Mono in GNOME
 * Novell’s Mono Seen as Controversial
 * Quote of the Day: On Mono, Novell and Microsoft
 * On Beagle’s Increasing Mono-ization and Novell’s Role
 * Quick Mention: No Mono for IBM’s Standards Vice President
 * Quick Mention: Windows ISV Tries to ‘Shove’ .NET into Mobile Linux Consortium
 * Microsoft’s Latest: Want Olympics on Linux? Get Mono (and Pay ‘Patent Tax’)

December 2007

 * The Mono Trap and the Open/Closed Promises
 * The Story of a Novell Marionette ("It’s not a coincidence, but Ximian may represent a point in time when Novell began looking at another programming universe — one that it barely controls.")
 * Mono and OOXML Unwanted in the Free Desktop
 * Quote of the Day: Richard Stallman on the GNOME Desktop
 * Pick Your (Patent) Poison

November 2007

 * Jamie from the GNOME Foundation Gets It
 * GNOME Foundation, Please Stop Attacking the Messenger and Please Listen
 * A Reader’s Take on the Dangers of Software Patents and Microsoft’s Role
 * A Quick Look at Mono Licensing and Microsoft Licensing
 * IBM’s Standards Vice President Asks About Mono-free Linux
 * GNOME and Novell: The FUD Never Existed
 * Necessary Cloning versus Unnecessary Cloning
 * Criticise Mono for Patents, Get Attacked
 * Love GNOME, Beware of Mono
 * Europe Takes a Look at Microsoft’s .NET (/Mono) Web Hijack Attempts
 * Attempts to ‘Infect’ Google’s Android with Microsoft IP Tax?
 * The GNU/Linux Pen O’ Sheep ("By throwing all eggs in the single basket which is Novell (e.g. Mono, ‘interoperability’, and Moonlight), Microsoft is hoping to assemble all Linux users (currently spread across 500+ Linux distributions) in a single ‘box’ and then eliminate them.")
 * What Lies Beneath (Another Mono Alert)
 * Quick Mention: Novell Talent Loss — Joe Shaw Departs
 * Clarifications About GNOME
 * GNOME-Mono Dependency Revisited
 * Quick Mention: Recent News on Patents and IP

October 2007

 * Is Mono a Reimplementation of Java, by Association?
 * Quote of the Day: The Naked Emperor
 * Breaking Down ‘Patent Fronts’ Against Linux
 * Anti-symbiosis: ODF, OOXML, Mono, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org
 * The Mono and Moonlight Roadblock
 * Hey, .NET! Leave That Phone Alone.
 * Does This New Poll Demonstrate Hostility Towards Monovellisation of Linux?
 * Mono: the Warning is Here, the Timebomb is Near
 * Microsoft Unleashes the Death Trap to Mono (Updated)
 * Novell’s Windowsization of GNU/Linux
 * Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based Advantage

September 2007

 * Novell’s Identity Crisis Makes Linux an Expensive Second-class Windows
 * Novell’s Linux Deal: Exclusive, Controlled by Microsoft, Awakens Patent Monster
 * Novell Attempts to Defend Moonlight, But Sinks Deeper in the Mud
 * The Kernel You Crave, But the Licence Won’t Let You Have
 * Matt Asay Agrees — Novell is a Slave to Microsoft, Carrier of the Moonlight ‘Infection’
 * Novell’s Trust in Oxymorons
 * Miguel de Icaza Talks About Novell, Mono, and Patents
 * Studying Novell’s Plans and Direction with Mono

August 2007

 * Enough is Enough. Novell is Becoming a Risk to Free/Libre Software.
 * Is Novell Building Microsoft Linux©? (Signs That Your Mono Ain’t So Safe)

July 2007

 * Patent Alert: Is GNOME Growing a .NET Dependency?
 * Novell Supports .NET and MS OOXML, the BBC Supports .NET and MS DRM
 * Novell Sets Focus on .NET

May 2007

 * Interoperability Based on Tax (Novell) versus Open APIs (Free Software)?
 * Microsoft’s Silverlight for GNU/Linux? Only If You Accept Mono. (Updated)

April 2007

 * Novell Enters the Infamous Software Patents Maze
 * Novell Fights Red Hat, Fights for Mono While Microsoft Fights Free Software
 * Novell Puts Its Cards on a .NET Linux
 * Novell Brings .NET to Teenagers
 * Concerns About Mono Raise Suspicion About a Hidden Plan
 * Mono and Patents, Putting a Price Tag on Linux

March 2007

 * Novell to Boost .NET (Miguel de Icaza Talks About the Partnership)
 * Does Novell Spread Its Mono Along with FUD?

January 2007

 * Novell Employee Backs Microsoft in OOXML Clash with Europe
 * Novell’s Global Effect on Perception of Software Patents

December 2006

 * Weekend Reading – Novell, Microsoft, and Mono
 * Mono’s Demise Good News for Free Software

November 2006

 * Red Hat to Stay Mono-free
 * Mono Officially a Minefield, is OOO Too?