Hi,
On 31/05/2011, at 11:09 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > I, for one, after hearing that Attachmate was firing the Mono team > thought "Well crap, that's game over for Mono - that was fun while it > lasted.." That was my first impression to when I heard. > > But during the past few weeks learning about the new company formed > and how all the old principals have joined, now I'm saying "Sweet this > is the best thing that could have possibly happened to Mono!" - I've > worked at both massive software giants and at small dot-com startups, > and crap simply gets done faster and better at a startup.. No more > listening to corporate VP schpeils about budget and marketing and > deadlines.. Just a bunch of smart people hacking away all day. The > way it should be. Open Source & Startups. The perfect mix ;-) Back to the good old Ximian days. My only gripe is around MonoTouch. I was just in the process of building my first iPhone app and now we are back to square one. I know Xamarin will produce an ever better alternative ".NET for iPhone". However this falls a little to late for me, so now I have to learn Objective-C, so I can complete what I started. I only wish that Attachmate/Novell/SuSE actually did the full handover of all Mono projects to Xamarin. Do Xamarin have any plans to create a new home for Mono and projects on the Internet, as from what I can see at the old Mono homepage, it has not been updated in some time. Did a not-for-profit company ever get setup to maintain the Mono domains, homepage, IP, etc? I wish Miguel, Nat and the rest of the Xamarin crew good fortune and for the Mono project to go from strength to strength. As for Attachmate/Novell/SuSE, they have lost me as a Linux customer. I will be using Ubuntu from now on, and recommending that going forward. Regards Matt _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
