https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/microsoft-donates-the-mono-project-to-the-wine-team/
Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
Yup, what they needed from Xamarin was absorbed into .NET and now that have MAUI for cross platform stuff, it was either sunset mono or give it to someone else
Wasn't it open source all the time? The article spins it more like microsoft don't want to shepherd the project any more, another group takes over?
Isn't it just less work for m$ or what am I missing?
