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

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Donates or "donates"? As "all yours" or as in "it's ours but you do the work"?

[–] anamethatisnt 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.Net is open source bruh, it's not proprietary

[–] anamethatisnt 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I stand corrected, .NET Core is open source and uses the MIT License.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It is not “.NET Core” anymore though. Since version 5, it has just been “.NET”. The current version is 8 with previews of 9 available.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's MIT and actually a fork of Mono. Reading the article helps.

https://github.com/dotnet/core

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

Oh what's that? Some rational thought in my ramblings? Nah we can't have that in this sublemmy champ

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

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.

I see this as the main purpose of this transfer of ownership. When it comes to developing new software, MS has their modern tech stack for creating cross-compatible code, and the recommendation is to use that. But that is not helpful when trying to get old legacy software running on a modern system. So MS is giving this "outdated" technology to the WINE team. A team whose primary goal is getting incompatible software to run in the "wrong" environment. This should allow WINE to continue to properly handle older Mono software for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 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.