That's a good.way to burden a competitor with a huge project.
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So they forked, gave mono away and asked that everyone use their fork?
It seems like they're hoping to gain a significant chunk of the mono community directly into .net.
That could be good or bad I suppose.
Beware of Microsoft bearing gifts...
They don't give a shit anymore. The business customers are paying for 365 and the gamers are paying for gamepass. Those are the money makers now. If you want you don't run windows, but you're still running windows apps (including 365) then Microsoft still gets paid.
Remember back in 2008 when people were losing their shit if someone created a mono app on Linux? Miguel remembers.
Plenty of good reasons existed for that wariness, and if they are doing this now it's because it benefits MS in some way. Maybe they just got sick of maintaining it and figured they'd buy some goodwill.
I typed that before reading the article then saw this:
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.
Here you go Wine devs, we're cleaning our our garage, and by the way, we would really like folks to continue to be hooked to the MS teat of .net instead. Please keep maintaining this for us. Aren't we great?
Someone on that page commented:
"It was always open source. They just bought the company who created* and maintained, it, moved the devs over to their own fork and closed down the original, graciously allowing the wine team to maintain their own fork of the old code, as if they needed a permission, lol. It's a good PR move (also for Wine, mind you) but nothing else."