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Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

rubycodez writes "After being thrown out on the streets by Attachmate, the purchasers of Novell, Miguel De Icaza has formed a new company Xamarin to make .NET development tools for Android and iOS. The company will also provide commercial international Mono support. There are those who would say Mono poses a risk of drawing Microsoft patent or other IP litigation for its inclusion in some major Linux distributions, and that these recent events might be the beginning of the demise of widespread use of Mono and other .NETiness in open source software, a good thing."

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  1. The cross-platform .NET? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They failed in their first attempt at making Mono a ubiquitous development platform by keeping their mobile ports behind a paywall. Now they lost access to those proprietary parts and decided to start again, in exactly the same fashion... brilliant.

  2. There are those who would say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...that the submitter should just state his opinion rather than hiding behind weasel words.

  3. Not a "Good Thing" by mrbluejello · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is not a "good thing" to have Mono or .NET interoperability taken out of reach of Linux users. Interoperability layers such as Mono allow Linux systems to participate in networks that are dominated by Windows and other commercial systems. If it weren't for software like this, Linux systems may not be invited into some corporate networks, and would not get a seat at the table. The idea of a "pure" linux or no linux is going to continue having linux sitting out in the cold all by itself. Interoperability is crucial. If anything, we need more software like Mono, not less.