Following Attachmate's acquisition of Novell, the entire staff of the Novell-sponsored Mono project team was laid off. Now, Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza has launched a new company called Xamarin, which plans to continue supporting the open source .NET clone Mono and the Silverlight mimic Moonlight, while pushing related development on iOS and Android platforms....
Miguel de Icaza wants a Windows strategy inside GNU/Linux
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Summary: More news about the Trojan horses that are Mono and Moonlight, more lies from the Mono team are outlined,
Wikipedia image modified for humourous purposes (this Wikipedia article about Miguel de Icaza says that “[i]“n summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team”)
Summary: Miguel de Icaza, who is at Microsoft right now (Microsoft MVP Summit), is attacking Ubuntu/Canonical along with his Microsoft-funded colleagues
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Miguel de Icaza presented this weekend at AltDevConf where he heavily promoted Mono and using C# for game developers...
Miguel de Icaza presented this weekend at AltDevConf where he heavily promoted Mono and using C# for game developers...
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Parole dure quelle di Miguel de Icaza, uno dei fondatori del progetto GNOME il famoso Desktop Environment, che sul suo blog si lascia sfuggire commenti molto duri riguardo il mondo dei desktop su Linux.
Secondo Miguel de Icaza il problema più grave sono le incompatibilità tra le varie distribuzioni GNU/Linux che rendono impossibile la creazione di quello che si è realizzato su Mac OS X con l̵
Attachmate's SUSE business unit announced a partnership with Xamarin, which formed to support the open source .NET clone & Mono& after Attachmate jettisoned the Mono team in May. The agreement grants Xamarin a broad license to all IP covering Mono products, including Mono for Android, and calls for Xamarin to provide technical support to SUSE customers using Mono-based products, says SUSE....
Xamarin, the company behind the cross-platform mobile development platform with the same name, today announced that it has recently acquired the Danish mobile testing startup LessPainful. LessPainful is the company behind the popular open source cross-platform functional test platform for Android and iOS, and Xamarin has already put this acquisition to use.
Last week, Miguel de Icaza, a vice-president at Novell, announced the release of version 2.8 of Mono, a project he set up to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.
The Linux community was abuzz about Miguel de Icazas controversial new stance on Mono. But in reality it was a classic case of Internet misinformation.