Ximian

Ximian was a company that desktop applications offered under Open Source licenses for Linux and UNIX. Ximian (formerly Helix Code ) was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October 1999.

The company was acquired by Novell on August 4, 2003.

In addition to a version of the GNOME Desktop and Ximian Evolution led the Mono project, which produced an open- source version of the. NET framework from Microsoft. It has also been working on a special version of OpenOffice.org for GNOME.

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