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Xamarin

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.

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