So it’s like “gifting” someone a puppy.
Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
lily33@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI guess it’s simply the framing: You don’t ‘donate’ open source projects. Is simply a case of a new organisation taking over a stalled project.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
twinnie@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
…Like MS-DOS getting open sourced. It’s pretty much worthless unless you need to use some really old device.
lily33@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
astro_ray@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Actually, wine used to maintain a fork.