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Microsoft has donated the Mono Undertaking, an open-source framework that introduced its .NET platform to non-Home windows programs, to the Wine group. WineHQ will probably be the steward of the Mono Undertaking upstream code, whereas Microsoft will encourage Mono-based apps emigrate to its open supply .NET framework.
As Microsoft notes on the Mono Undertaking homepage, the final main launch of Mono was in July 2019. Mono was “a trailblazer for the .NET platform throughout many working programs” and was the primary implementation of .NET on Android, iOS, Linux, and different working programs.
Ximian, Novell, SUSE, Xamarin, Microsoft—now Wine
Mono started as a venture of Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the GNOME desktop. De Icaza led Ximian (initially Helix Code), aiming to convey Microsoft’s then-new .NET platform to Unix-like platforms. Ximian was acquired by Novell in 2003.
Mono was key to de Icaza’s efforts to get Microsoft’s Silverlight, a browser plug-in for “interactive wealthy media functions” (i.e., a Flash competitor), onto Linux programs. Novell pushed Mono as a technique to develop iOS apps with C# and different .NET languages. Microsoft utilized its “Group Promise” to its .NET requirements in 2009, confirming its willingness to let Mono flourish outdoors its particular management.
By 2011, nonetheless, Novell, on its technique to being acquired into obsolescence, was not doing a lot with Mono, and de Icaza began Xamarin to push Mono for Android. Novell (via its SUSE subsidiary) and Xamarin reached an settlement through which Xamarin would take over the IP and prospects, utilizing Mono inside Novell/SUSE.
Microsoft open-sourced most of .NET in 2014, then took it additional, buying Xamarin completely in 2016, placing Mono beneath an MIT license, and bundling Xamarin choices into numerous open supply initiatives. Mono now exists as a repository which will sometime be archived, although Microsoft guarantees to maintain binaries round for no less than 4 years. Those that wish to preserve utilizing Mono are directed to Microsoft’s “trendy fork” of the venture inside .NET.
What does this imply for Mono and Wine? Not a lot at first. Wine, a compatibility layer for Home windows apps on POSIX-compliant programs, has already made use of Mono code in fixes and has its personal Mono engine. By donating Mono to Wine, Microsoft has, at a minimal, erased the final little bit of concern anybody might need had in regards to the firm’s management of the venture. It is a very completely different, open-source-conversant Microsoft making this transfer, in fact, however regardless, it is a good gesture.
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Microsoft has donated the Mono Undertaking, an open-source framework that introduced its .NET platform to non-Home windows programs, to the Wine group. WineHQ will probably be the steward of the Mono Undertaking upstream code, whereas Microsoft will encourage Mono-based apps emigrate to its open supply .NET framework.
As Microsoft notes on the Mono Undertaking homepage, the final main launch of Mono was in July 2019. Mono was “a trailblazer for the .NET platform throughout many working programs” and was the primary implementation of .NET on Android, iOS, Linux, and different working programs.
Ximian, Novell, SUSE, Xamarin, Microsoft—now Wine
Mono started as a venture of Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the GNOME desktop. De Icaza led Ximian (initially Helix Code), aiming to convey Microsoft’s then-new .NET platform to Unix-like platforms. Ximian was acquired by Novell in 2003.
Mono was key to de Icaza’s efforts to get Microsoft’s Silverlight, a browser plug-in for “interactive wealthy media functions” (i.e., a Flash competitor), onto Linux programs. Novell pushed Mono as a technique to develop iOS apps with C# and different .NET languages. Microsoft utilized its “Group Promise” to its .NET requirements in 2009, confirming its willingness to let Mono flourish outdoors its particular management.
By 2011, nonetheless, Novell, on its technique to being acquired into obsolescence, was not doing a lot with Mono, and de Icaza began Xamarin to push Mono for Android. Novell (via its SUSE subsidiary) and Xamarin reached an settlement through which Xamarin would take over the IP and prospects, utilizing Mono inside Novell/SUSE.
Microsoft open-sourced most of .NET in 2014, then took it additional, buying Xamarin completely in 2016, placing Mono beneath an MIT license, and bundling Xamarin choices into numerous open supply initiatives. Mono now exists as a repository which will sometime be archived, although Microsoft guarantees to maintain binaries round for no less than 4 years. Those that wish to preserve utilizing Mono are directed to Microsoft’s “trendy fork” of the venture inside .NET.
What does this imply for Mono and Wine? Not a lot at first. Wine, a compatibility layer for Home windows apps on POSIX-compliant programs, has already made use of Mono code in fixes and has its personal Mono engine. By donating Mono to Wine, Microsoft has, at a minimal, erased the final little bit of concern anybody might need had in regards to the firm’s management of the venture. It is a very completely different, open-source-conversant Microsoft making this transfer, in fact, however regardless, it is a good gesture.
