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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/microsoft-donates-the-mono-project-to-the-wine-team/

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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

Well, this is surprising isn't it. Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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yoros
yoros
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> Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.
Not sure to understand, is that a good thing?
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Stefan H.
Stefan H.
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Good to hear some actual good news related to that megacorp for once in the cyberpunk dystopia we live in now
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Incognito ergo sum ⚔️
Incognito ergo sum ⚔️
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someday they give all to wine devs because only wine project would have proper windows devs 😁
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Norbi Peti
Norbi Peti
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that's really nice, Wine is all about backwards compatibility so it makes sense to declare that as the official version, although now I wonder if this also means that only the Wine version would stay updated.
Also I don't really like how much control MS has over .NET but I guess it's still their thing.
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Cyanide Sampler
Cyanide Sampler
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I'd like to meet the handful of devs and engineers responsible to getting Microsoft to approve this
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Meh as a Service
Meh as a Service
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how do you donate an open source project, can I do that too.

(Good news, sure, but strange wording to me. Sounds more like an offload than donation.)

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The Wellerman Sam :mastodon:
The Wellerman Sam :mastodon:
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If Office 365 can run perfectly and easily then there would be no need for Windows. Maybe it already works, I don't know - my work only supplies Macbooks or Windows and my Linux machine is my own desktop which I use more often than the Macbook (I just need Office for editing Powerpoint really as Web Outlook works as well as the app now).
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Evil NullDott
Evil NullDott
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My brain is still processing this whole thing.

On the one hand, I'm happy to see that the mono project will continue to be developed by the people behind Wine, but in the other hand, why, how, and more specifically "donate?" I think "passing ownership" would be a better phrase.

Still happy overall, maybe we could get things like MonoDevelop or modern C# support soon in Mono!

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crazyeddie
crazyeddie
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Here's me with shocked Pikachu face going, "MS owned mono? When the fuck did THAT happen??"
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MrTea
MrTea
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This seems like a nice gesture, but I hope it doesn't split the .Net community. Mono is pretty legacy at this point, but maybe Wine have some real need for it.

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