As far as I can tell, nothing about the C# language itself is patented, the issue revolves around certain parts of the base class libraries. As for the point?

As far as I can tell, nothing about the C# language itself is patented, the issue revolves around certain parts of the base class libraries. As for the point? Various Gnome apps seem to be doing well; I can see how writing them in C would've been comparatively tedious. And there's the obvious use in porting .NET apps to OSX or Linux.