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Never like seeing people laid off (fired's a different story), but Mono never made sense to me. I can imagine that it was a hard thing to pitch internally to th
by latch 16y ago
Never like seeing people laid off (fired's a different story), but Mono never made sense to me. I can imagine that it was a hard thing to pitch internally to the new owners.
I'm 1/2 surprised MS doesn't just announce it'll continue with development and hire the existing team. If they don't (because they still could), this seems like the real story here...step up and put your money where your mouth is.
- HardyLeung 16y agoAmen. In fact, Microsoft should hire the Mono team, redouble the open source effort, integrate Mono Droid and Mono Touch into Visual Studio and offer them for free (like VS Express). This looks like an easy way to attract app developers to the all-encompassing Microsoft platforms, and help make Windows Phone an equal of iPhone and Android... This could be a major win!
- jinushaun 16y agoI never understood why MS never bought out Mono and continued the work in-house. It always perplexed me that they left this for an outside company.