I won't comment on the dollar amount except to say that it's [$72m] not correct, though not off by an order of magnitude. I also won't comment on sources of that money, except to say that some of the assertions that I've seen in the comments are pretty far off, both in terms of numbers and sources.

Tonight Mono lands in rawhide, and will be included in FC5 [Fedora Core 5]. We're happy to enable another convenient method to use our core desktop platform.

Money is one of the last things we worry about and people shouldn't get hung up on the numbers, except to realize that it gives us options.