I really think it should be about the technology first... I have seen a lot of the same sort of opinions hold back adoption of Mono for projects, because .Net itself came out of Microsoft. Java is now owned by Oracle... so does that mean we should get to migrating all those Java applications off of that stack too?

Hell, NodeJS is backed by Joynet.. does that mean I shouldn't use that platform since I don't plan on hosting with Joyent?

I think it's pretty important to at least try to keep the politics out of certain technology decisions. Sometimes it may well become important, sometimes it is less so.