Xamarin

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.

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