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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] EmasXP@lemmy.world 154 points 3 months ago (2 children)

TIL that Mono is a Microsoft project. I always thought it was an open source reverse engineered .NET

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 118 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was only a Microsoft project the moment they bought Xamarin.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Wasn’t Ximian behind it at some point?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 93 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was at first, then they became a for profit organization, Xamarin, who was bought by Microsoft.