fknight said:Bass said:*snip*Microsoft could GPL every bit of code they've ever written and renounce all patents and people would still say not to use it because "they still might sue you" or claim it's some kind of trick.
Yeah it won't shut up the Mono hate. Might lessen it though.
It might make Gnome move faster to integrate Mono more fully in the desktop experience. Which as a fan of .NET (and strangely, Linux as well) the possibility of Mono driving the majority of Gnome sounds really, really cool.