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.
Mono Developers start their own company
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#12MS 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.
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#14Any one have any statistics on Mono or know companies that use it, always wondered about Mono usage. What are some use cases?
I know one prominent company using Mono is Medtronic, who use it for their iOS app, and have been featured prominently by Apple.
Re: Mono Developers start their own company
#15MS should support them with some funding.
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#16Any one have any statistics on Mono or know companies that use it, always wondered about Mono usage. What are some use cases?
Also, some Gnome apps are written in C#: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Software_develo...
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#17Does anybody know how they'll be funded over the next few years?
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#19I wish you all the best guys...
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#20It's awesome to see open source teams truly believe in what they do and stand up against, in lack of better name, "classic business model". First Jenkins CI, now Mono. I wish you all the best guys...