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This makes absolutely no sense. Apple (iOS, OS X as examples) generally is a very closed ecosystem, though not a monopoly, and certainly don't operate under the banner of 'open source'. Google (Android, Chrome as examples) is a pretty open ecosystem, also not a monopoly, and actually is open source, no idea what "banner of 'open source'" means but they just are open source.

On the flip side, there's no reason to hate everything Microsoft do, c# and Mono are great. Maybe people should get over dismissing anything open source that Microsoft do, but the rest of what you've said makes no sense.



> On the flip side, there's no reason to hate everything Microsoft do, c# and Mono are great.

Microsoft didn't do Mono, it did .NET which Mono cloned in a form supported on a wider variety of platforms.


Mono is pretty much ostracized from the open source community along with many open source C# projects. Remember the whole ordeal about including Mono in Ubuntu?


Fair enough, I've never looked into it and he gave it as an example of a Microsoft project.




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