Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin 286
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."
Who didn't see this coming? (Score:4, Interesting)
A. Miguel.
"Xamarin" - because "Ximian" was already taken.
Good news? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:The cross-platform .NET? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)
It's open core- not free software, not open source (Score:5, Interesting)
From TFM:
Re:I wonder if Apple would allow it... (Score:5, Interesting)
More likely because DOJ was beginning to probe on the behalf of Adobe.