● 04.01.12

●● Xamarin to Dump Mono, Repackage C# for GNU/Linux Instead

Posted in Microsoft, Mono at 2:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: April shower of news from Xamarin

In a move expected by many industry observers, Xamarin clarified that Mono was “an utter waste of effort”; Xamarin reached an agreement with another ape-themed company — an agreement to distribute a rebranded version of Visual Studio and related products.

“Our CTO already got a Microsoft MVP title, removing all pretences and blowing away our cover.”      –Manfred Tan“The openwashing of C# was already done anyway,” remarked Manfred Tan, the CEO of Xamarin. “Our CTO already got a Microsoft MVP title,” he emphasised, “removing all pretences and blowing away our cover. So we might as well go all the way.”

Shareholders of Xamarin (both of them) were very excited by the news. “I am overfilled with joy,” one of them was quoted as saying, adding that he has never been so excited about anything since Silverlight was released by Apesoft.

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In more serious news, who gets excited about Microsoft news [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] that dilutes “Open Source” and openwashes proprietary software.

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