When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.