"Microsoft is Aiming to Kill Both Mono and WINE in One Fell Swoop."
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What is the official statement from the actual WINE project on this white elephant?WINE was having a hard enough time keeping up as is was without this added burden. It seems that by not funding this "donation" that Microsoft is aiming to kill both Mono and WINE in one fell swoop.
Real news would have been that this "donation" is accompanied by heavy funding. Or, better yet, that Microsoft has started to fund WINE and is accompanying the donation with code for Mono.
The Mono code is only a half-assed implementation of the ill-defined .NET anyway. The ill-defined .NET fiascco is "open core" and the important parts will never see the light of day. Thus, in addition to being a white elephant, it is a trap. If projects start to use Mono, they'll be pressured for full .NET support at some point and at the point they decide for that, they'll have no choice but to drop support for serious operating systems and go 100% Windows.
Or another way to look at this would be as a hostile take over. If the Mono people accompany the Mono code and are absorbed into the WINE project, suddenly microsofters out number real developers and can better throw sand in the gears during any general voting or future decision making.
Nah. This is just Ars showing its true (Microsoft) colors once again by praising this heinous attack against a very important interoperability project.
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