.Net for Mac owners

A belated plug for a good quick overview of Microsoft.Net by Jeff Lewis in his MacOpinion column. It's painfully obvious that Apple (and particularly Steve Jobs) doesn't have a clue about .Net, and my unverified hunch is that the same goes for most Mac users. Since .Net is based on standards, there's really no reason why Macs shouldn't be great .Net clients and servers, but who is going to pitch in and do the sort of work Mono is doing for Linux? As far as I can tell, Apple has already wasted two years and will probably waste a couple more before it wakes up. And the result may well be that Mac users who are already second class citizens on today's Web will become third class citizens on tomorrow's.