I take a risk by crossing the street.

In order to know the risks attached to Mono, you’d have to know what people inside MS think. Of course, since you’ve not chatted with any MS employees, you have no way of knowing the actual risk. Mono is not the same thing as TomTom. It would be nice if you acknowledged in the future that you don’t know whether MS views Mono as a friend or an enemy.

Your fear-mongering reminds me of the Bush administration 😉

You also don’t consider whether the patent issue can be easily worked around without throwing away all of Mono. Not all patent risks are the same. And do you actually know of any specific problems? Microsoft claims that there are hundreds of patent violations in Linux and so the safest thing is to run Windows. Is that what you will recommend next?

Apps like Gnote (which is a line for line port of TomBoy, missing many features of course, and it is easier to port than create anew) are created partially because of you. And Gnote is a total waste of time. You are also pushing people to stick with C and C++, and this is much worse for the free software community. If you had read my book, you would understand why we need to retire C and C++ as soon as possible.

And why not stand up against software patents? Let’s fight!

I sometimes feel that you should keep your opinions about free software focused only on the GPL and software license issues. Wading into programming languages and patent risks is much more complicated.