Yup, I too agree with the Reg's take. BTW, did you...
...notice how Cliff, the fsckwit Slashdumb editor who wrote it up, fundamentally misunderstood both the e-mail from their correspondent and the Reg's misgivings?
He just blithely twittered on about how "Yes, if we could get .NET working on non-Microsoft platforms, it would be a good thing" -- which was the exact opposite of what the Reg wrote, and "a Slashdot reader" found "worth discussing".
Sheesh...! No wonder I don't go there all that often any more.
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything