Uhm, whatever does deployment of C# in FOSS projects have to do with helping Microsoft? I for one do not see any relevance towards that at all.

C# in FOSS should stand on its own merits and not look aside at other political issues (unless it is a legal issue). Either C# is good for FOSS or it is not. If it hurts or helps another cause should not be of any relevance.

you will simply use a standard totally controlled by a corporate entity which will not let people evolve the standard and create free market with it. (with java/sun , it was very difficult to certificate opensource products, I don’t think it’s enough : for example you are still dependant of sun to have a good jvm : It’s a _real_ TECHNICAL and COMMERCIAL problems ! )

with C#, there always legal problems pending and a standard made to serve windows, not linux or macosx or whatever
in fact : “foss” will simply always behind the better and newer “.net/C#” stuff in whatever windows there will be

for what I can see : mono is simply a good excuse to continue to do applications for only windows in mind. not some gtk# ones. Of course gnome hackers are doing gtk# applications, but how many are in linux distributions ? or worst Freebsd ?

_what_ is the interest , for me a professionnal, to do C# applications on linux ? is it better, easier, faster than a windows applications ?

Moving to Mono/C# to create a few Linux applications in the last two months has made me wonder why the hell I didn’t do it sooner. It’s also quite interesting to design and compile an application under Linux and have it run without any changes under Windows.

Quite simply, Mono rocks. In fact I’ve even used .NET DLL’s designed for Windows without problem too, Mono has pretty much given me the best of all worlds.

I would love to see it as a standard inclusion for GNOME, even if the core components still use C.

Yes, let’s.
Python is A: slow, 100 times slower than C#/Java in some cases, B: not beginner friendly although it is marketed as such, there are documented problems beginners have that have not been fixed for years, C: hasn’t really changed in 15 years, thanks to the NIMPY crowd (‘not in my python!’), D: many people hate debugging whitespace/indenting issues, E: has a horrible hodge podge of crap for a “standard” library, unlike the standard libraries found in Mono and Java, F: has no easy way for extending functionality (like macros in other languages) or interoperating (like DllImport in C#), G: there is no support for ide features like an easy integrated gui designer or code completion or refactoring (C#/Java, QT Designer, etc.).
If anything, ruby is already superior to python. On the jvm side there is groovy which is rapidly improving.