[pbz]

It has been, and it still is, thankfully to a somewhat lesser degree. Even Stallman said "we should discourage people from writing programs in C#". This, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg.

Whether .NET is different from Mono is not what I argue. Mono brought a MS-inspired technology to Linux so they got under the MS hatred umbrella. There was and still is a purely knee-jerk / emotional reaction to whatever they bring to the table.

[guard-of-terra]

I also remember how Stallman praised the starting of two GNU projects to reimplement .Net.

Anyway, Stallman is not a good example of vilifying anything. He's the strictest man in town. He is afraid of everything. Rightfully so. But he's not a representative sample of the community.