maybe a different example would have been more effective

Funny thing about Matt Asay’s blog post about Miguel, Mono, and Moonlight:

You [Miguel], personally, would convince more by going back to the innovation in GNOME that originally made you one of the most interesting developers on the planet. I want the old Miguel (and Nat – where has Nat Friedman been?) back, the one who demo’d Nat’s Dashboard with Nat at OSCON. The one who led and pushed GNOME forward for so many years.

I worked on Dashboard with Nat and others, and the amusing thing is that it was written in C# on Mono. It was exactly Miguel’s (and others’) work to make Mono a nice development environment for Linux desktop hackers that made Dashboard possible and fun to hack on as a rapidly evolving playground.

(Yes, it’s possible that in the absense of Mono Dashboard would have been written in Python or something else — even C — but Matt’s calling out of Dashboard as a counterexample to Miguel’s “time wasting” on Mono is humorous.)