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Microsoft Offloads The Mono Project To Wine


Coming as a surprise this afternoon is Microsoft deciding to contribute the Mono Project to be stewarded by the Wine development community.

Coming as a surprise this afternoon is Microsoft deciding to contribute the Mono Project to be stewarded by the Wine development community. Mono originally was started by Miguel de Icaza and the gang as Ximian that was acquired by Novell two decades ago and then SUSE handed off Mono control to Xamarin in 2011.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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