Gnome to be based on .NET?

[Jürgen Salk <juergen salk gmx de>]

"How much do you love Microsoft's .NET? Enough to
trust your Gnome applications to its APIs in the
future? 
That's what Gnome leader Miguel de Icaza, believes
should happen. Miguel calls .NET the "natural
upgrade" for the Gnome platform [...]"

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23919.html>

I am frankly a bit surprised to hear that. 
Could someone please enlighten me, how this complies 
with GNOME's self-conception of "an entirely free 
desktop environment for free systems".

Thank you in advance.

Best regards - Juergen Salk


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