flaming Mono war

These days it seems that the 'flaming Mono war' has raised to a new DEFCON level. For me, I think that it's silly to avoid this very good framework.
Anyway, it's also good to discuss it and go deep into legal diatribes... if they remains polite.
I had read thousands of words(yes, sometimes good and honest) against the framework, but today I've finally read this excellent post titled Here we go again – why Mono doesn’t suck.
I can only suggest you to read it too, now.

JavaScript for GNOME

As reported by Slashdot, Seed and Gjs are two new projects that try to provide support for building and extending Gnome applications with JavaScript.
In this way, in the near future, those projects could take dozens of small applications and plugins into Gnome. A nice step towards.
For more info read this well written Seed tutorial.