Beware of Microsoft bearing gifts...
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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They don't give a shit anymore. The business customers are paying for 365 and the gamers are paying for gamepass. Those are the money makers now. If you want you can run windows, but if you're still running windows apps (including 365) then Microsoft still gets paid.
That's extremely uncharacteristic. Are they trying to prepare for an antitrust probe?
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So they forked, gave mono away and asked that everyone use their fork?
It seems like they're hoping to gain a significant chunk of the mono community directly into .net.
That could be good or bad I suppose.
Remember back in 2008 when people were losing their shit if someone created a mono app on Linux? Miguel remembers.
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.Net sucks, compared to mono. The compiler is slower, filesize after optimization is still higher and the character set in cli is far more limited when I compile an app with .Net.
Are those the most important factors for a framework? Or in the top 5?
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Someone on that page commented:
"It was always open source. They just bought the company who created* and maintained, it, moved the devs over to their own fork and closed down the original, graciously allowing the wine team to maintain their own fork of the old code, as if they needed a permission, lol. It's a good PR move (also for Wine, mind you) but nothing else."