The amazing thing to me is that they've been able to thrive simply by focusing on mobile... they dropped Moonlight on the floor even as MS-bound line-of-business devs everywhere found out that Silverlight is a dead end.

http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/moonlight-list/2011-Decemb...

  > 
  > Some of the other work I believe is a gold mine of technology,
  > in particular our media pipeline, the rendering/layout code and
  > the animation framework. Perhaps someone would find a use for
  > that code in the future, we currently do not have plans to
  > continue developing Moonlight.  
  > 
  > - Miguel de Icaza
  >