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Mono Developers start their own company

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Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by praeclarum »

c4urself wrote: post #7

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

My iOS app iCircuit (http://icircuitapp.com) was written using MonoTouch. It's the #242 grossing productivity app in the store.

I know, I know, #242 doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a big store. :-)

I use Mono for the ease of development (powerful language + nice IDE), the nice runtime (GC and type reflection), and the .NET libraries.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by bullseye »

mbreese wrote: post #15
sapper2 wrote: post #5

MS should support them with some funding.

It would also go a long way to assuage people that MS wasn't about to pull the rug out from under Mono with a patent suit. If MS was a shareholder in a company that commercializes Mono, it would be tougher (but not impossible) for them to sue.

Microsoft applied the "Community Promise" to the ECMA C# and CLI standards a couple of years ago.

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx

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Post by clark-kent »

icey wrote: post #30
c4urself wrote: post #7

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

Second Life uses Mono extensively. I'm not sure if it's in their runtime engine but it is used in their scripting engine.

OpenSim - open source virtual world server is also written in Mono.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by DrJokepu »

melling wrote: post #45
guelo wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, it was all about trying to screw Adobe.

Why specifically were they trying to screw Adobe?

That was around when Adobe was planning to ship Flash with an automatic Flash-to-iOS App exporter. Apple tried to (and managed to) stop that from happening.

Re: Mono Developers start their own company

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Post by cageface »

yuhong wrote: post #12
jordan0day wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not to mention that Mono can be used to push developers toward Windows and the official .NET Framework, and in fact has.

Which is exactly why some of us are reluctant to cheer Mono on, no matter how dedicated and talented the Mono team might be.
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