Voy a contaros una historia ...

Año 2001

Año 2002

Miguel de Icaza

Mono project

http://www.go-mono.com

# apt-get install mono
                        

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void Main (string [] args) {
        if (args.Length != 1) {
           System.Console.Error.WriteLine("You must tell me your name."):
           System.Environment.Exit(-1)
        }
        string name = args[0];
        System.Console.WriteLine ("Hello, {0}!", name):
    }
}
                        

$ mcs Hello.cs

$ mono Hello.exe Manrique

Hello, Manrique!
                        

Mono everywhere

And time goes by...

1999

Miguel de Icaza had a job interview at Microsoft in 1997 shortly before he started the GNOME project. At Microsoft he met Nat Friedman, who worked there as an intern. Afterwards they became good friends. In April 1999 Friedman came up with the idea to create a company to work on GNOME. The company was founded on 19 October 1999 as International GNOME Support, but its name was changed to Helix Code later. Because that name could not be trademarked the name was changed to Ximian on 10 January 2001.

2003

Ximian was acquired by Novell on 4 August 2003 because it wanted to improve its offerings of Linux for the enterprise

2011

Novell was in turn acquired by The Attachmate Group on 27 April 2011. In May 2011 The Attachmate Group laid off all its US staff working on Mono, which included De Icaza

2011+

Mono, hoy en día

http://www.mono-project.com