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Novell's acquisition of Ximian, and re-iteration of their commitment to key Ximian technologies like Gnome and Mono, means that doing cross-platform .NET development just got legitimized and well funded.

This can only be a good thing for .NET. Let's hope Microsoft sees it that way, too, and doesn't get sue-happy over non-ECMA technologies.