The project, which released version 1.0 last month, is significant in several ways: it offers the potential to unite the open source communities for Windows, Linux, and other platforms; it fulfills the niche for a powerful migration tool; it builds upon existing open source technologies such as Mozilla and Apache; and — most importantly — it illustrates the resolve of the open source community to rise to Microsoft’s challenge.

Now hopefully Microsoft doesn’t decide to patent the hell out of everything and make the majority of this useless. Although with all the development, Mono could very well just take a life of its own. All the better I say.

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