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Mono project gets new home in 'Xamarin' start-up

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http://www.linuxfordevices.com – 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.... (Embedded)

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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....

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.

After completing its acquisition of Novell, Attachmate has laid off hundreds of U.S.-based employees -- including members of Novell's Mono project -- and re-established Nuremberg, Germany as the headquarters for the SUSE business unit, say an industry report. Meanwhile, a U.S. appeals court reversed a summary judgment that could revive Novell/Attachmate's anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft....

Xamarin, the Mono company, has ported Google's Android source-code to C# that can be used with Mono. Hello Mono-droid?..

Xamarin, the Mono company, has ported Google's Android source-code to C# that can be used with Mono. Hello Mono-droid?..   Read more at Phoronix

Re: Mono on TinyCore 3 years 19 weeks ago

Now I found how to build and install mono 2.6.x to TC.First install packages - base-dev, make, pkg-config, gcc, bison, binutils, gettext, glib2-dev, glib2thenwget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.6.1.tar.bz2tar xjvf mono-2.6.1.tar...

In a blog post on May 16, Miguel de Icaza announced Xamarin, a new Mono-based product company.

Now that Novell Inc.'s Mono open source project finally last week released the beta version of its Moonlight 2.0 code after several months of delays, what's its potential impact for Linux users and the open source community?

I am not legal expert, but I am wondering about the different licensing and what it means and means to Open Source/FOSS.

Miguel de Icaza wants a Windows strategy inside GNU/Linux

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: More news about the Trojan horses that are Mono and Moonlight, more lies from the Mono team are outlined,