Linked by snydeq on Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:43 UTC
Apple Novell has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The SDK leverages Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#.
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Commercial
by Matzon on Tue 15th Sep 2009 06:48 UTC
Matzon
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"We have the rights to redistribute Mono under commercial terms and that's what we're giving to users here," said Joseph Hill, product manager for Mono at Novell.

Lovely, so all those who spend a lot of time on making mono work just got their code used in a closed source environment. Thanks, but no thanks