Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
    • embed_me@programming.dev
      13·
      2 months ago

      Not much. There used to be this fear of Microsoft copyrighting Mono for reimplementing their stuff on Linux. For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono and they have also open-sourced .NET and everything, this does not mean much.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
        510·
        2 months ago

        For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono

        “You don’t like it? Fine then, we buy it and force it on you!”

        Classic Microremoved.