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This is a pretty cool deal; nice to see an open-source powered company that has found a self-supporting niche.

It will be interesting to see how they strike a balance between making money and keeping things (like Mono.Mac, MonoDevelop, etc.) open... and if they are able to build a community of outside contributors around the open-source parts of their solution(s).

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I was wondering about this. Are they planning to keep some part open source? I feel like they ditched that entire idea...

MonoDevelop, MonoMac, and Mono itself are still all open source.

http://github.com/mono/monodevelop

http://github.com/mono/monomac

http://github.com/mono/maccore

http://github.com/mono/mono

Xamarin also has a number of open source modules on github: https://github.com/xamarin

It would be nice to see a blog post or two on the mile-high long-term etc. goals Xamarin has for the open source aspects of their tech... or perhaps a pointer to any existing summary. As you've pointed out, Xamarin is rather quietly contributing a lot; it would be great to have a place to point the non-developers to that explained this as well.

Do you mind emailing me a list of questions, to make sure I address all of them?

My blogging has gone down, due to twitter mostly, but this is a good chance to talk about our open source work.

Cheers! Miguel

That would be really great. Me being skeptical pays off after all. This is why HN is so great.

I look forward to your blog post.

I'll bring this up with Miguel.

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