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

submitted 3 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft has had dotnet-core for awhile. If you are running production dotnet loads (eg a C# app), you’ve probably been using those Linux containers for awhile. This doesn’t surprise me; they usually aren’t interested in maintaining an open version of software they have more restrictive licenses for. Enterprises will continue to use dotnet-core and Microsoft will probably do something to shoot mono in the foot in a few years.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually everybody will use .NET and not Mono if possible, as it's officially supported and a successor.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

The reason to use mono over dotnet is political. This is stirring up some really old shit; I expect a continuation of that shit now. Mono is currently MIT as is dotnet core. Who knows what direction each project will go now? MS has a history of fucking with licenses and Wine uses copyleft setups.