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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by segmondy on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:05PM (#8135185)
Do you create windows versions of your applications or win 8 apps? If not, you are being hypocritical.
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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by a-saleh on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @01:29AM (#8135687)
Well, first I am creating a little game, and MonoGame (awesomely cross-platform opensource port of XNA) is awesome, and I would love to work in officialy supported Xamarin on linux and not fiddle around with old builds of MonoDevelop.

And second, for doing any serious CI/QA-Automation, Linux sucks the least IMHO :) But that might be just the years at RedHat speaking :P

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by CmonDev on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @03:58AM (#8135964)
Targeting the 1-3% percent of developers willing to work on Linux doesn't make much commercial sense.
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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by adamors on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @05:27AM (#8136140)
You're confusing developers with generic end users/consumers. Yes, Linux has a low market share among the general population, but it's quite popular with people who write code.

For a lot of things it's important to have a decent terminal emulator, a Unix file system etc. Windows has none of these out of the box and even things like Cygwin are a pain to use.

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