the ubuntu "mono" culture

lovely comment at http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-25-031-35-OS-CY-0019 argues that the slow infiltration of mono-apps in Ubuntu was probably planned that way, and the more such apps get added the easier for non-mono apps to be rejected in favour of a notionally equivalent mono app.

Read the full comment; makes a very cogent point.