Xamarin

From Techrights

Xamarin is best known as the company behind Mono, headed by a former Microsoft employee, technically led by Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza, and funded in part by Ignition Partners, a VC run by former Microsoft executives. Xamarin was, as many people had expected, bought by Microsoft in 2016.

Contents 1 2021 2 2016 3 2015 4 2014 5 2013 6 2012 7 2011

2021

• Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VIII — Mr. Graveley’s Long Career Serving Microsoft’s Agenda (Before Hiring by Microsoft to Work on GitHub’s GPL Violations Machine)

2016

• No, Visual Studio is NOT Open Source and Xamarin Openwashing is NOT News
• The Simple Truth About What Xamarin Was All Along to Microsoft, Just Like Ximian and Novell (Post-Patent Deal)
• Xamarin Quits Pretending to be Separate From Microsoft, All Staff to Work Directly for Microsoft

2015

• Xamarin is Still All About Microsoft, Still Excluding GNU/Linux
• Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android
• RoboVM Takeover of Interest to Microsoft and Its Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (E.E.E.) Strategy Against Android, Which It Says It Wants to Fork
• With New Xamarin Buyout, Microsoft Now a Step Further in Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Strategy Against Android

2014

• With .NET Foundation Affiliation Xamarin is Another Step Closer to Being Absorbed by Microsoft
• Longtime Mono Booster Joins Microsoft-linked Xamarin
• Miguel de Icaza and Xamarin Become More Tightly Integrated With Microsoft
• Microsoft Rumoured to be Taking 100% Control of Mono

2013

• Microsoft Has Taken Over Mono Development, With Miguel de Icaza’s Consent
• Mono Can Now be Treated Like a Microsoft Project
• Turning Open Source to Proprietary-Only, Microsoft Style
• Xamarin is a Microsoft Extension

2012

• Xamarin and Miguel de Icaza Help Microsoft
• Mono and Xamarin After Cash Infusion From Former Microsoft Executives
• Xamarin is Still an Anti-Java Company
• Xamarin to Collaborate With Microsoft
• Xamarin and Mono Out of the Radar’s Range

2011

• Xamarin and Novell: The Sagas Continue
• .NET Does Not Want to Die Just Yet
• SUSE and Xamarin: Helping Microsoft Tax GNU/Linux (Google Should Secede From the Funding)
• .NET Gets Called a Mistake, But Not in Xamarin
• Xamarin Gets Permission From Novell But Not From Microsoft
• Xamarin and Mono a Dead End
• Xamarin Has a Trademarks Problem
• Xamarin/Mono Already Abandoned by Developers
• Techrights Was Right About Mono Being Open Core, Now Miguel de Icaza Admits It
• Foggy and Binary Future (If Any) for Mono
• Microsoft Partner Attachmate Keeps Monopoly Over Mono ‘IP’ After Microsoft Aided Sale
• Microsoft Proponents Promote Xamarin While Microsoft is Abandoning .NET/Mono
• As Mono Runs Out of Money Developers Avoid It
• Xamarin CEO Has Microsoft Employment History
• Funding Behind Xamarin is Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza; Fresh Concerns About Attachmate
• SD Times: “Attachmate (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) buys Novell. Microsoft gives gobs of money to Attachmate. Attachmate whacks the Mono team.”
• Xamarin Analysed
• Mono Company Registered Near Microsoft (Bellevue)
• Microsoft Infiltrator Wants Canonical to Foster Mono as Canonical CTO (Who Opposed Mono) Leaves
• Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
• Mono Development Canned (Updated: Everyone Laid Off)
• Attachmate and Mono