2009/7/25 River Tarnell river@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk:
.NET is not, itself, non-free. Microsoft's implementation (the most common one) is, but Mono (http://mono-project.com/Main_Page) is not. perhaps the AWB developers could make whatever changes are needed to run it on a free implementation.
Well, C# and .NET in general are patented so they aren't free and they're bad choices.[1] AWB depends exactly on the non-free implementation of .NET, Microsoft's which makes it even worse. Any other program will be nice, but a Python script will be the best because I'll be able to adapt it by my own.
[1]: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono