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

          No.

          Microsoft maintains what is essentially the “real” version of Mono within their official .NET project. It is up to version 8.

          The version of Mono represents by “The Mono Project” still targets .NET Framework ( stuck on version 4.x for years now ). Microsoft does not care about the real version, nevermind the Open Source replica.

          What Microsoft is “donating” is pure legacy. It is a good fit for Wine though.

  • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Donates or “donates”? As “all yours” or as in “it’s ours but you do the work”?

    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      As in
      “We’ve finished taking all we need from the Mono project and implemented it into our proprietary .NET implementation for Linux, Android and iOS. Instead of getting flack for killing off Mono (which is open source and would’ve been forked anyways) we graciously give this old husk to the Wine project. We recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET. kthnxbye!”

      Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.