Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

2 years ago by Nemeski to c/linux

Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
Wangus 18 points 2 years ago

Microsoft has already forked mono and built it into its own .net run time for Linux and no longer needs the mono project. Presumably it's no longer going to invest in the mono project or try to maintain any kind of parity.

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Rade0nfighter 13 points 2 years ago

I can’t decide if this move is designed to overwhelm (or at least increase the workload of) the Wine team so that they can’t do as good a job reducing people’s dependence on Windows with their core product, or whether this is part of my prediction playing out - MS abandoning kernel/OS development in favour of a skinned Linux on which they can still harvest data and sell subscriptions.

In any case charity from a corporation is never truly charitable!

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drkt 20 points 2 years ago
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muntedcrocodile 9 points 2 years ago

Microsoft insuring that applications are cross-compatible so they can release Microsoft Linux (windows 13).

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LinearArray 3 points 2 years ago

Lmaoo

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boredsquirrel 4 points 2 years ago

I mean, they make more money with Office 365 than with Windows. They could just support Linux and not lose a lot of money

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possiblylinux127 2 points 2 years ago

Well that's surprising. Maybe they wanted to lower cost or something.

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ghostpony 1 point 2 years ago
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