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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.

Mono
Miguel de Icaza
Ignition Partners

●● 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

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