Gregory's ServerMicrosoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/microsoft-donates-the-mono-project-to-the-wine-team/
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@yoros @gamingonlinux right, i'm also not really clear on what this means. Mono was already opensource, just sounds microsoft doesn't want to invest in it anymore.  @dirkdierickx @yoros @gamingonlinux It's like they came in, did some stuff, then took off with a chunk of the code and closed it off in their own thing. @yoros @gamingonlinux They ended up open sourcing the new "dotnet" coreCLR runtime under MIT license so I guess they don't need mono anymore  @gamingonlinux Good to hear some actual good news related to that megacorp for once in the cyberpunk dystopia we live in now  @gamingonlinux someday they give all to wine devs because only wine project would have proper windows devs ๐  @gamingonlinux that's really nice, Wine is all about backwards compatibility so it makes sense to declare that as the official version, although now I wonder if this also means that only the Wine version would stay updated. @gamingonlinux I'd like to meet the handful of devs and engineers responsible to getting Microsoft to approve this  @gamingonlinux how do you donate an open source project, can I do that too. (Good news, sure, but strange wording to me. Sounds more like an offload than donation.) @gamingonlinux If Office 365 can run perfectly and easily then there would be no need for Windows. Maybe it already works, I don't know - my work only supplies Macbooks or Windows and my Linux machine is my own desktop which I use more often than the Macbook (I just need Office for editing Powerpoint really as Web Outlook works as well as the app now). @gamingonlinux My brain is still processing this whole thing. On the one hand, I'm happy to see that the mono project will continue to be developed by the people behind Wine, but in the other hand, why, how, and more specifically "donate?" I think "passing ownership" would be a better phrase. Still happy overall, maybe we could get things like MonoDevelop or modern C# support soon in Mono!  @gamingonlinux Here's me with shocked Pikachu face going, "MS owned mono? When the fuck did THAT happen??" @gamingonlinux can we expect more software available through wine from this move?  @gamingonlinux That sounds more like "We don't need this anymore, let's dispatch to someone else" @gamingonlinux I Can teach you how to invest in stock mining turn your $200 to $5,500 in just 3hrs ask me How! text me for more info TEXT SMS: Text No:+1 (703) 879-8125 WhatsApp link below ๐ ๐๐๐ @gamingonlinux |
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> Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.
Not sure to understand, is that a good thing?