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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by mesamunefire to c/technology

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[–] auzy 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you think they're going to ask for this one back? 😂

Whatever it is, it benefits the community.

What price tag do you think is attached to this one?

Things can be beneficial to both parties.... Not everything corporations do need to screw someone else 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft primary motivation was not to benefit the community, but to gain good PR in that case. It just so happen that this move also benefits the community as well.

And that's my point. Sometimes, corpos' decisions benefit the community, but this is only a side effect, not the intended purpose.

[–] auzy 1 points 3 weeks ago

The guy who started mono also started gnome you realize.

More likely he influenced this decision