What does Microsoft putting .NET on Linux mean to us?

From advogato.org: “I dont think it means much to the community at all.
If anything, it might be used against us, and make us lazy. Lets not let that happen!

As far as I can tell from all my investigations of Microsofts .NET, most of which by the pro-Microsoft developers in
my office.
The only thing of true value to the open source/free software community is SOAP. The rest is all server side code
for processing requests. So I dont see much value to us in what they are doing.”