Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Apr 2006 17:25 UTC, submitted by Mitarai
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2006-01-01
Novell, and the rest of the mono community have deliver what we have today at an amazing pace when put in perspective. There are 23 permanent Novell mono developers and about 230+ regular contributors to the mono project. We support 5 distinct operating systems and over 7 CPU architectures, that does not include all the distributions on Linux and Windows variants alone! Compared that with Microsoft and .NET. They literally have thousands of people that work on .NET between development, product and program management, QA, marketing, etc.

http://www.mono-project.com/Supported_Platforms
There is a lot of .NET 2.0 functionality in mono already. For example, a very capable implementation of generics was available in mono quite a few months before .NET Framework 2.0 was finally released to the general public.
C# 3.0 spec is handled by ECMA, so members of the Mono team like Miguel de Icaza are responsible for contributing directly overseeing its progress just as the other members like HP, Intel, Microsoft, etc. This means that C# 3.0 is not holding mono up, mono is actually one of the reasons C# has progressed to 3.0