Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Should the use of C#, Mono, and .NET still be discouraged?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > the fact that dotnet has a replacement is not the major factor -
  > dotnet and mono are both easy to discard; simply because they have
  > no important clients - there is barely no intersection of it's
  > user-base and ours - the main value of dotnet and mono in distros
  > is as yet another programming toolkit in the crowd of many, but
  > one which has never been widely adopted by distros or their users

That could be a valid reason, but I see a possible gap between that
criterion and criterion that matters to us:

Microsoft expects people to run the nonfree dotnet on GNU/Linux.
If that happens, would it be desirable to invite them
to switch to Mono on GNU/Linux?

If so, that could give us more reason to care about Mono on GNU/Linux
than we had in the past.

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