Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

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Microsoft gives the Wine team infectious mononucleosis. Got it.

But seriously, Microsoft is nobody's friend and shouldn't be trusted.

I am no Microsoft fanboy, but I get the impression people are a bit overly skeptical here.

I think this is fairly obvious. They have no further use for it, they can either let it rot or they can do the tiniest bit of effort and get some positive PR. It might also just be as simple as an initiative from some employees.

TIL that Mono is a Microsoft project. I always thought it was an open source reverse engineered .NET

I can't help but think that Microsoft has decided to proceed in some way that will break compatibility, so they're done with Mono now.

I know it's skeptical, but I just have no faith in that company to act in good faith with anything.

Jeezus. Microsoft can't do anything without people talking crap about them 😂

What's the twist? There must be some reason.

Microsoft has had dotnet-core for awhile. If you are running production dotnet loads (eg a C# app), you’ve probably been using those Linux containers for awhile. This doesn’t surprise me; they usually aren’t interested in maintaining an open version of software they have more restrictive licenses for. Enterprises will continue to use dotnet-core and Microsoft will probably do something to shoot mono in the foot in a few years.

Read the headline and thought "there's a catch..."

Finally got around to reading the post and Microsoft is very politely saying "we've completed stealing their shit now. Don't know why anyone would want it, use ours now. You can have it though."

Thanks I guess? I'm glad it's out of their hands now and with an open source group that cares and can make a difference.

Now give us DirectX on Linux

That's a good.way to burden a competitor with a huge project.

Beware of Microsoft bearing gifts...

That's extremely uncharacteristic. Are they trying to prepare for an antitrust probe?

So they forked, gave mono away and asked that everyone use their fork?

It seems like they're hoping to gain a significant chunk of the mono community directly into .net.

That could be good or bad I suppose.

.Net sucks, compared to mono. The compiler is slower, filesize after optimization is still higher and the character set in cli is far more limited when I compile an app with .Net.

Extend, Embrace, Extinguish?

Remember back in 2008 when people were losing their shit if someone created a mono app on Linux? Miguel remembers.

Someone on that page commented:

"It was always open source. They just bought the company who created* and maintained, it, moved the devs over to their own fork and closed down the original, graciously allowing the wine team to maintain their own fork of the old code, as if they needed a permission, lol. It's a good PR move (also for Wine, mind you) but nothing else."