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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (35 children)

What's the twist? There must be some reason.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I guess it's simply the framing: It was a not very actively maintained open source project. So they've decided to turn it over to a new maintainer. Calling that 'donation' is a bit pushing it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

So it's like "gifting" someone a puppy.

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