Mono Developers start their own company

Former Mono contributor myself from 2006-2008. Crazy day. It won't die. To many companies are invested in it. I always wished it would spin off earlier.

I wanted to meet up with Miguel when he was in SF a few days ago, but now I know why he was so busy.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by sapper2 » Mon, May 16, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

MS should support them with some funding.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by escoz » Mon, May 16, 2011, 8:26 PM UTC

equark wrote: post #3

Doesn't look like the Mono guys were able to keep the key IP. That's too bad. It's hard to see what Attachmate gains by keeping it.

My guess is it simply takes a lot of time/money to get IP issues solved, which the mono guys don't have.. they would rather rebuild it than wait indefinitely for those things to be resolved.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by c4urself » Mon, May 16, 2011, 8:26 PM UTC

Any one have any statistics on Mono or know companies that use it, always wondered about Mono usage. What are some use cases?

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by jordan0day » Mon, May 16, 2011, 8:26 PM UTC

sapper2 wrote: post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

I agree with this. While you could certainly make the argument that Mono undercuts Microsoft by expanding .NET beyond Windows, I think the amount of developer goodwill it generates towards .NET probably compensates for that.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by there » Mon, May 16, 2011, 8:29 PM UTC

his former company was called ximian, which was started to do commercial gnome development. this new company is called xamarin to do commercial mono development. those are some pretty confusing names.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by zbowling » Mon, May 16, 2011, 8:31 PM UTC

equark wrote: post #3

Doesn't look like the Mono guys were able to keep the key IP. That's too bad. It's hard to see what Attachmate gains by keeping it.

Really sucks.

Something interesting is that the contributor agreement wasn't a copyright assignment but that you licensed your code to Novell and that you granted them the right to relicense it under any license they wanted.