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It never had any sense, and it never had any future. We told Miguel he would be playing the chase game with Microsoft and he will always be behind and never being sure if MS won't use the patent card if Mono actually becomes dangerous (and they can get quite nasty when pissed off - see the accusations against ReactOS).

But he was in love with COM/DCOM, registry, and many other things that MS shipped. Some of these things made Gnome much slower than it could be.