Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

• auzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How does this help open source?

  I’m not sure how the community has grown to be so toxic recently that it becomes risky to release a product as open source, and we’re losing opportunities. This has huge benefits to projects like wine

  Are you guys suggesting they should retract the offer and close source everything?

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  • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All I said was MS is crap. I stand behind my statement. Looks like their PR team is working overtime here.

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    • auzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mate. I don’t even use Windows anymore lol

      And I started a few open source projects and contributed to a lot of them.

      This is why Linux still isn’t gaining market share because for 25 years I’ve been watching the community scare off developers and treat them like crap. It happens constantly.

      You’re not giving anyone any incentive to assist

      In all likelihood they donated this code because it doesn’t benefit them anymore or became a burden. The developers aren’t sitting there thinking “mmm, this is gonna make us so popular”.

      Did you know the guy who stayed mono is actually the guy who started gnome? They got acquired by Microsoft.

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