Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

0x0 , 5 hours ago

Repost of programming.dev/post/18652552

smeg , 2 hours ago

It’s not a repost if it’s in a different community

delirious_owl , 23 minutes ago

What’s the difference? Thanks for sharing the repost. It let’s us see the comments in both communities

possiblylinux127 , 1 hour ago

This is a different community all together

possiblylinux127 , 1 hour ago

Well that was unexpected

Charadon , 1 hour ago

“”“donates”“”

noxfriend , 6 hours ago

Does Mono have any purpose any longer? What is the point now that dotnet core is so well-established?

domi , 2 hours ago

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.

melroy , 4 hours ago

What is happening?

NateNate60 , 8 hours ago

What are the implications of this?

embed_me , 7 hours ago

Not much. There used to be this fear of Microsoft copyrighting Mono for reimplementing their stuff on Linux. For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono and they have also open-sourced .NET and everything, this does not mean much.

Dirk , 5 hours ago

For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono

“You don’t like it? Fine then, we buy it and force it on you!”

Classic Microshit.

bufalo1973 , 9 hours ago

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

anamethatisnt , 9 hours ago (edited 8 hours 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.

morrowind , 8 hours ago

.Net is open source bruh, it’s not proprietary

anamethatisnt , 8 hours ago

I stand corrected, .NET Core is open source and uses the MIT License.

woodgen , 8 hours ago

It’s MIT and actually a fork of Mono. Reading the article helps.

github.com/dotnet/core

github.com/dotnet/runtime

SatyrSack , 6 hours ago

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.

I see this as the main purpose of this transfer of ownership. When it comes to developing new software, MS has their modern tech stack for creating cross-compatible code, and the recommendation is to use that. But that is not helpful when trying to get old legacy software running on a modern system. So MS is giving this “outdated” technology to the WINE team. A team whose primary goal is getting incompatible software to run in the “wrong” environment. This should allow WINE to continue to properly handle older Mono software for the foreseeable future.

GammaGames , 7 hours ago

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 , 6 hours ago

And that’s how you know it’s worthless

MonkeMischief , 8 hours ago

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!