[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Even after de Icaza launched his own company, Xamarin, to keep
Mono going, I had little hopes Mono would survive. Well, it looks
like I was wrong.“Xamarin has convinced SUSE–Attachmate’s Linux
branch–to give it Mono’s intellectual property. In return,
Xamarin will provide technical support to SUSE customers using
Mono-based products, and assume stewardship of the Mono open source
community project.”