Can you please explain both why it's non-OSS, and how it's patent-infringing? Mono is, I believe, released under MIT license. This is an official OSI-certified Open Source license, so I think you need to back up that statement that it's non-OSS.

Mono is not known to be infringing on any patents either, so I'm not sure what your claim is in that case either. The core of the .NET framework that falls under the ECMA/ISO standard is patented by Microsoft. But anything submitted to these standards must be available for implementation under RAND terms. However, Microsoft went one step further with the patents for these standards and said they would release them under not just RAND terms, but also for royalty-free terms. There is a difference between infringing on a patent and implementing something that is patented but available under a standard with royalty-free RAND terms.

Mono does not knowingly accept code that is patented and does not fall under the ECMA/ISO standard because then they would be setting themselves up for possible litigation.

But they're not doing that, and they never have. You're just trolling and spreading FUD with posts like that. This is the type of stuff that we see from the Boycott Novell people, and this is why nobody takes them seriously.

That's the most retarded fucking thing in the world. If you don't like Mono, just don't fucking use it. The point is, these guys aren't actually contributing anything. Instead they just sit around and criticize fucking awesome hackers. Mono is really fantastic software. If you don't like it, just don't use it.

It benefits Novell, but Novell benefits Linux.

"Now that Gnome largely depends on Mono (indirect dependencies), they reached an important step." This is complete FUD. Gnome does not in any way depend on Mono. In fact, pretty much everything in your post except the "this is my POV" is pure FUD. Nobody has ever found any grounds on which Microsoft could sue any Linux companies, and all this "boycott Novell" stuff is just trying to fuck with a company that is contributing a shitload of great work to the community.

Sorry, but the Boycott Novell people are complete retards to begin with. To my knowledge they don't actually produce anything for the open source community, but they sit around and bitch and whine about Novell who employs all kinds of open source hackers; including kernel hackers, GTK and GNOME hackers, window manager hackers, Mono hackers, accessibility hackers, open source artists, and more. Sorry if I have very little sympathy for the situation. It's not that I think anyone should be 'manhandled' under any situation, but these guys are the most inconsiderate members of the "open source community" and it's hard for me to really take most things they say very seriously.