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Remember back in 2008 when people were losing their shit if someone created a mono app on Linux? Miguel remembers.
Plenty of good reasons existed for that wariness, and if they are doing this now it's because it benefits MS in some way. Maybe they just got sick of maintaining it and figured they'd buy some goodwill.
I typed that before reading the article then saw this:
Here you go Wine devs, we're cleaning our our garage, and by the way, we would really like folks to continue to be hooked to the MS teat of .net instead. Please keep maintaining this for us. Aren't we great?