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

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Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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Microsoft primary motivation was not to benefit the community, but to gain good PR in that case. It just so happen that this move also benefits the community as well.

And that’s my point. Sometimes, corpos’ decisions benefit the community, but this is only a side effect, not the intended purpose.

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auzy@lemmy.world
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The guy who started mono also started gnome you realize.

More likely he influenced this decision

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