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>But do haters realize that you can run .NET on a fully free/OSS stack, in the cloud, AWS, Linux, the works? That question is not rhetorical. Do haters realize that?

Yeah. They just don't care for the sub-par experience of using Mono. (MS opensourcing large parts of .NET / CLR etc is quite recent, so it doesn't have changed the climate yet).

>Comment below on why .NET has such a bad rap.

Well, not that much bad rap. People just don't use it. From what I read on most forums, hackers using other languages tend to like C# (lots of people, even in Unix land), and respect F#.

But they either want a mature system with longer open source presense and better support than Mono (e.g Java) or they don't work with such managed runtimes at all and they opt for something else.

Note that Java, which has been open sourced and has had a huge hacker community for many more years than .NET, still gets a bad rap because of Oracle's actions and behavior.