Microsoft Makes Xamarin Free In Visual Studio, Will Open Source Core Xamarin Tech (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader cites a report on VentureBeat: Microsoft today announced that Xamarin is now available for free for every Visual Studio user. This includes all editions of Visual Studio, including the free Visual Studio Community Edition, Visual Studio Professional, and Visual Studio Enterprise. Furthermore, Xamarin Studio for OS X is being made available for free as a community edition and Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers will get access to Xamarin's enterprise capabilities at no additional cost. The company also promised to open source Xamarin's SDK, including its runtime, libraries, and command line tools, as part of the .NET Foundation 'in the coming months.' Plenty of developers will find this announcement exciting. Xamarin being free is a big deal.

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Re:Huh

[Freshly Exhumed]

What is Xamarin? Why should I care about it?

The Slashdot interface contains a search tool. Try the term "Xamarin" in it. :)

Re: More Microsoft PR Here Today?

[hsmith]

It is almost like they have their developer conference going on or something. This site is fucking stupid. Bitch about MS for almost two decades - then they about fave and start open sourcing massive quantities of products and getting software to run on Linux, bitch more.

Re: More Microsoft PR Here Today?

[Freshly Exhumed]

I am bitching about the ratio of MS PR stories to Firehose submissions having been massively skewed in the last couple of days. I identified that the dev conference is the basic cause, so we agree on that point. THAT's my issue. It is annoying to me, so I bitch about it. I get modded down, I get up again.