Mono Plans for Whidbey and Beyond

Miguel's write-up on the PDC is quite interesting. You can find it here. His conclusion (emphasis mine):

“Microsoft has taken another bold move in moving all of their new API development into .NET.

Not only are the new operating system features cool, but they have turned them into an API.

It is now our turn in the open source world to track these innovations, and expose turn applications into API providers.

It is important for Mono to continue its path (Note: we should do this in an orderly fashion, in peace if you will. Not screaming, waving our hands and banging our heads against the wall).

We have to leverage what is unique about Linux, iFolder, Gnome, Cairo, the VFS, our databases and expose those features to the managed world.

Mono needs to become a core feature of every application. “ [1]

[1] Lessons from the PDC. Miguel de Icaza. http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2003/Nov-13.html