Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
  • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml
    25·
    2 months ago

    Donates or “donates”? As “all yours” or as in “it’s ours but you do the work”?

    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
      414·
      2 months ago

      As in
      “We’ve finished taking all we need from the Mono project and implemented it into our proprietary .NET implementation for Linux, Android and iOS. Instead of getting flack for killing off Mono (which is open source and would’ve been forked anyways) we graciously give this old husk to the Wine project. We recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET. kthnxbye!”

      Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
        3·
        2 months ago

        You are completely correct. The good news is that the “official” .NET is Open Source now and far better than the “Mono Project” ever was.

    • embed_me@programming.dev
      7·
      2 months ago

      Not much. There used to be this fear of Microsoft copyrighting Mono for reimplementing their stuff on Linux. For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono and they have also open-sourced .NET and everything, this does not mean much.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
        45·
        2 months ago

        For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono

        “You don’t like it? Fine then, we buy it and force it on you!”

        Classic Microshit.