[Mono-list] Huh?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 10:52 -0800, Jerry Houston wrote:
> With some time off due to a US vacation day, I decided it's time to take a 
> look at the newest mono. Checking my distro's software update feature, I found 
> only 1.0 available, so I figured I'd need to go directly to the ximian web 
> site and look there instead.
> Entering http://www.ximian.com took me to a Novell Linux Enterprise website.
> What's up with that?  I thought I was pretty well aware of who's in bed with 
> whom (e.g., Novell and Microsoft), but I didn't have any idea that a ximian 
> URL would take me to a Novell web site.

Ximian (the company) was purchased by Novell in 2003 (5 years ago).

If you want Mono it is more effective to go to the project's website
<www.go-mono.com>