<p>If the Mono project is successful it will pave the way for commercial software on non-Windows platforms.</p>

<p>I am interested in the prospect of writing and selling commercial software for the Mono platform along the lines of our existing Smoke Vector Graphics (OCaml) and F# for Visualization (.NET) products. Are any commercial library developers already building upon Mono and, if so, are they turning a profit from it?</p>

<p>Also, will it be feasible to write the software in Microsoft's F# language or will Mono have trouble with ILX?</p>

Linux people are notoriously thrifty, so I'd consider the ROI.
Do you really want to spend your resources to target a group that has less than 10% market adoption, and out of that 10%, only 1% would be interested in your product, and only %0.01 percent would pay for it?