[kermitthehermit]

The problem is that some people still remember some of the stories about how Microsoft blackmailed some hardware vendors to stop shipping devices with Linux and how they sued companies which sell Android based devices. Because of that reason, it's not that hard to imagine a scenario where Microsoft got "stabby" and wanted a piece of someone's cake.

node.js / python / php / ruby (with all of their frameworks) are far better choices than .net. At least they're backed by a lot of people and they all seem to be doing fine. They're pretty much the same across distributions / OSes / architectures from the point of view of development and of the delpoyment (to some extent).

I played with the nancy framework when I was considering an alternative to python for a small web service which required high rps / server resources. Needless to say, I decided to stick to python due to the lack of instructions for compiling on Linux and deploying on mono.

[rbanffy]

> remember some of the stories about how Microsoft blackmailed some hardware vendors to stop shipping devices with Linux and how they sued companies which sell Android based devices.

Sadly, this is not limited to the past. Microsoft is using patent extortion to get a couple bucks for every Android device sold.