It looks like Novell has screwed Migual and the Mono team.
In his blog, Migual
writes:
“We have been trying to spin Mono off from Novell for more
than a year now. Everyone agreed that Mono would have a brighter future as an
independent company, so a plan was prepared last year.
To make a long story short, the plan to spin off was not
executed. Instead on Monday May 2nd, the Canadian and American teams were laid
off; Europe, Brazil and Japan followed a few days later. These layoffs included
all the MonoTouch and MonoDroid engineers and other key Mono developers.
Although Attachmate allowed us to go home that day, we opted to provide
technical support to our users until our last day at Novell, which was Friday
last week."
As a result, Migual has found a new company called Xamarin
that will focus on Mono-based products.
I have been a big believer in open source project and would
like to support Mono development at any stage.
Read detailed blog here:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/May-16.html