SUSE makes good with dismissed Mono devs

“When Attachmate bought Novell late last year in a deal believed
to be worth around $2.2 billion, many worried for the fate of the
open source projects that Novell had taken under its wing. While
most eyes were on SUSE, the open-source arm of which was primarily
sponsored by Novell, the news that Attachmate would be laying off
the staff responsible for the Mono project came as a shock to the
community.

“In response the engineers formed a new company dubbed Xamarin,
echoing the creation of Mono’s original creator Ximian prior to its
acquisition by Novell in 2003. Although this gave hope that the
Mono project, which provides the frameworks necessary to support
client and server applications written in Microsoft’s .NET
language, would continue, many wondered how it would do so without
Novell’s support.”

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