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

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

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

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

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

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

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