You are here: Home › FSF News › Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# Update: Microsoft's Empty Promise Debian's decision to include Mono in its principal way of installing GNOME, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. The problem is not unique to Mono; any