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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago

It could also be that they simply don't want to deal with this themselves anymore, but don't want to sunset it. Giving it to WINE lets it stay alive and they get to collect good-boy credits from people who still have faith in MS.