That's extremely uncharacteristic. Are they trying to prepare for an antitrust probe?

So they forked, gave mono away and asked that everyone use their fork?

It seems like they're hoping to gain a significant chunk of the mono community directly into .net.

That could be good or bad I suppose.

Remember back in 2008 when people were losing their shit if someone created a mono app on Linux? Miguel remembers.

.Net sucks, compared to mono. The compiler is slower, filesize after optimization is still higher and the character set in cli is far more limited when I compile an app with .Net.