This doesn’t only apply to Mono, but Mono is the most high-profile example of this. For this I created a banner in the spirit of the ‘I’m not afraid of…’ banners that appeared on Planet GNOME:

You (don't) use Mono? I don't care!

(By the way, this image is hereby released in the public domain. Go become a billionaire with selling it if you want.)

I don’t care if you hate Mono and burn it’s source code at night with sacred rituals or if you are secretly working on porting the kernel to C#. I just want a good desktop. Is it written in Mono? That won’t kill my computer and won’t get me sued. If you don’t want to use Mono, please do so as you want.

But please, please, don’t bother me with what I should or shouldn’t do. I don’t believe in community parasites nor in the fact that using Banshee can make my eyeballs pop out.

Imagine what we could have achieved if e.g. we’d been discussing the 100 papercuts instead… Such a waste of time.