There's not enough overlap for MS to want to buy Xamarin to shut it down. This is them putting their money where their mouth is vis-a-vie .NET expansion plans.

There's not enough overlap for MS to want to buy Xamarin to shut it down. This is them putting their money where their mouth is vis-a-vie .NET expansion plans. Hopefully they'll keep Monodevelop under development, if they don't bring VS to Linux.