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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
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Donates or "donates"? As "all yours" or as in "it's ours but you do the work"?
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.
It's MIT and actually a fork of Mono. Reading the article helps.
https://github.com/dotnet/core
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime
Oh what's that? Some rational thought in my ramblings? Nah we can't have that in this sublemmy champ