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3 years ago this would be a sad news for Xamarin, today with the new Microsoft I'm glad to see this. Microsoft will not destroy Xamarin (I hope)
by msoad 11y ago
3 years ago this would be a sad news for Xamarin, today with the new Microsoft I'm glad to see this. Microsoft will not destroy Xamarin (I hope)
- giancarlostoro 11y agoMicrosoft is only a threat to JetBrains from where I'm standing and looking, I have a feeling they will fix up Xamarin the way we all hope they will. I really hope there will be a completely free option of Xamarin for Students and maybe even on BizSpark.
- livus 11y agoThere is already a free option of Xamarin for students.[1] Earlier there used to be a separate application process but now it is rolled into DreamSpark [1]https://xamarin.com/student https://xamarin.com/student
- Someone1234 11y agoThere's also the "Starter Edition" for everyone else: https://xamarin.com/starter https://xamarin.com/starter
- giancarlostoro 11y agoThank you both, I did not know, looks like you already get it through DreamSpark that was really fast (in the case of Student).
- nissehulth 11y agoStarter edition is pretty much useless. You may use it to "get a taste" of Xamarin, but you can't really make any useful apps with it.
- rs999gti 11y agoIf MS puts Xamarin licensing under MSDN I'd be really happy.
- snuxoll 11y agoOr if they just release the Mono runtime under MIT (Mono requires all VM contributions to be licensed to them under MIT, they then turn around and release it under LGPLv2 and a commercial license - so it's legally doable without any effort). Microsoft's product strategy is getting .Net everywhere for free, making money on services and tooling - they don't need commercial Xamarin around to make their strategy work.