Why Mono for Android?

I have gotten a few questions asking why a developer should use Mono for Android (aka MonoDroid).  I thought I would just do a brain dump on my thoughts on this.Java Developers are looking at MonoDroid and wondering "Why"?  They see that the core of Android is Linux, an open source operating system, with a bunch of passionette people behind it.  Java developers have a free runtime, they have a