Miguel de Icaza is a genius. Beating for a Linux Port of Microsoft .NET has been a risky business from the beginning. Mono Project has faced the opposition of Linux world against Microsoft, but it has finally managed to survive. And not only survive, as Novell is currently supporting the project.
Finally, Microsoft has realized that Linux is not the enemy, but another business opportunity. An example of this is the last announcement made by Microsoft and Novell: Silverlight will have a Linux version based on Mono named MoonLight. Moreover, it will also have browser plugin versions for Silverlight for Firefox, targeting Windows, Mac and Linux.
Via Bitelia
