From the things-that-should-never-happen-but-you-knew-they-would-eventually department, comes more flamage in the Mono advocates vs. anti-Mono advocates vs. the now anti-anti-Mono advocates. I never like it when columnists or reporters treat all bad ideas equally, so I'll just come out and say it - the anti-Mono crowd is comprised of a bunch of corn-fed idiots with more than a passing resemblance to the recent tea bagger protesters. However, I'm not sure that the correct response to that is to ratchet up the flame wars.

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CodePlex Foundation will help spread use of Mono. The foundation will ensure that there are incentives for open source software developers who embrace Mono.

PC makers to support Chrome OS. Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system.

Chrome OS to emphasize security. Google claims that it will be "completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS," reports ArsTechnica, including process isolation.

Codeplex the measure of Microsoft open source street cred. The company is trumpeting the success of its three year old CodePlex open source site, noting it now has over 10,000 projects.

Stop piling on Mono. Microsoft says it won't go after developers using the "C# programming language" and infrastructure used in the Mono implementation of .NET. So why are people ripping on Mono?

SUSE 11 takes off faster than 10. Novell delivered its SUSE Linux 11 release at the end of March, so it's now time to ask how it's doing. The answer: better than SUSE Linux 10.