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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 202 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 76 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Technofrood 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now if only they would add Linux support to MAUI.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe they'll add it to Mono.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed. I feel like it would make the most sense to just have a generic QT target, but that's a licensing nightmare. Otherwise they'll probably target GTK 4, which would still draw ire from some of the linux community lol

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