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Is this good news or bad news for open source C#/.NET development?

• frowaway001 13y ago
  Bad news. If Microsoft was interested in having a cross-platform runtime or a cross-platform IDE, they could have done it years ago. Now, as some kind of side-effect of buying Xamarin, the have acquired most people behind Mono/MonoDevelop ... how do you think this will work out? Maybe not immediately, but as soon as someone in the management decides that costs need to be cut, someone will ask the question why microsoft maintains two runtimes, two class libraries, two IDEs, etc. and kill them.