Agree - the platform agnostic thing is only a recent reality - but, the "possibility" was there at the begining, and at the time the future seemed very bright.

Agree - the platform agnostic thing is only a recent reality - but, the "possibility" was there at the begining, and at the time the future seemed very bright. (The fact that they did not sue Mono into oblivion immediately was a good sign - of course, but then their historical trend of influental buy-outs continued with the eventual aquisition of Xamarin...)