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If you’re at all interested in Open Source or Linux you’ve probably heard about the debate surrounding the inclusion of Mono and Mono-based apps in the default Ubuntu distribution. Here is the original post that seemed to trigger it all. Here is the reply that was posted by Jo Shields, a member of the Debian Mono group. Richard Stallman also weighed in on the matter, in favor of removing Mono. Now I think having ideals and standing up for them is great and that people should always stand up for what they believe in. However, it’s one thing to stand up for your ideals and do what you have to, but it’s quite another to use your ideals as an excuse for making people use something that is of lower quality and that they don’t want to.