Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
  • Wangus@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months 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.

  • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world
    141·
    2 months 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!

    • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      20·
      2 months ago

      It could also be that they simply don’t want to deal with this themselves anymore, but don’t want to sunset it. Giving it to WINE lets it stay alive and they get to collect good-boy credits from people who still have faith in MS.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    4·
    2 months 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