Miguel de Icaza was asked about creating a non profit organisation for mono, (mono foundation) but he said he did not have the time to do it, however het did offer to support it if one was created.
I think a non profit organisation for mono is a very good idea. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Matthew Winter <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >
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