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Lanky_Pomegranate530 ( Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

www.gamingonlinux.com

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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

www.gamingonlinux.com

Lanky_Pomegranate530 ( Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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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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  • bufalo1973 ( bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Donates or “donates”? As “all yours” or as in “it’s ours but you do the work”?

    • Gamma ( GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 
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      as in “your fork is official now, we have our own compatability in .net and there’s no need to maintain it”

      The recognition is nice, but there hadn’t been a major release in over 5 years. I’d guess the outcome is mostly paperwork

  • finley ( finley@lemm.ee ) Banned from community
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    Removed by mod

  • MonkeMischief ( MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) 
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    Okay, a suspicious thanks to you, Microsoft…

    …So when can we get this treatment for WMR so all our VR headsets don’t become useless bricks kthaaaanks!

  • Jay🚩 ( jaypatelani@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Technical debt is transferred to Wine team.

    • T (they/she) ( Templa@beehaw.org ) 
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      They were already maintaining a fork of it though?

  • Charadon ( Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    “”“donates”“”

  • noxfriend ( noxfriend@beehaw.org ) 
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    Does Mono have any purpose any longer? What is the point now that dotnet core is so well-established?

    • Domi ( domi@lemmy.secnd.me ) 
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      Yes, Mono is used by Wine to support Windows .NET applications since it’s a) open source and b) contains support for Windows Forms and other Windows-only APIs.

      They can’t ship the regular .NET framework by default for licensing reasons but it can be installed with winetricks to replace Mono, which is sometimes necessary for compatibility reasons.

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        Thanks!

  • melroy ( melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 
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    What is happening?

    • Possibly linux ( possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) 
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      Microsoft donated mono to the wine project

      • melroy ( melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 
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        Yea I know. But I still can’t believe it.

        Microsoft finally sees they can’t code.

  • Possibly linux ( possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Well that was unexpected

  • 0x0 ( 0x0@programming.dev ) 
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    Repost of https://programming.dev/post/18652552

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      deleted by creator

      • delirious_owl ( delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 
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        What’s the difference? Thanks for sharing the repost. It let’s us see the comments in both communities

        • 0x0 ( 0x0@programming.dev ) 
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          What’s the difference?

          Technicalities… it has been cross-posted, i hadn’t noticed it.

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            However…

    • Possibly linux ( possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) 
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      This is a different community all together

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    Ew.

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