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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 122 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Most of the time a company does something like this they would just let it die. It’s good that Microsoft have at least made the effort to hand it over to a team who’s willing to keep it going.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's certainly good, I'm not arguing that. My point is, if the wine team is interested, they can fork the unmaintained project, and work on that. Eventually, people will switch over to the active fork. What Microsoft is doing, is helping the process along, and making it easier. So it's good, and helpful - but not really a "donation" to winehq.

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