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"Donates"? A code base is a maintenance burden.

• pstrateman 2y ago
  Yeah if this doesn't come with a substantial endowment it's not a donation.
  • rnd0 2y ago
    So ...throwing it over the fence into the neighbor's yard, then?
    • ielillo 2y ago
      More like going to the local library with a bunch of old books. It might be worth keeping them, but someone has to sort them out.
• RandomThoughts3 2y ago
  That’s the old code base which has been in maintenance mode for 5 years and which Microsoft doesn’t want to maintain anymore. New development still happen in a fork which remains under the stewardship of Microsoft. Second paragraph of the article by the way, just saying.
  • farhaven 2y ago
    So Microsoft gave the Wine project the software equivalent of a stained mattress?
    • RandomThoughts3 2y ago
      The Wine project apparently decided they wanted to keep alive an old version of a piece of software Microsoft has no interest in and Microsoft gave them the official repo instead of throwing it out. Mostly interesting in that it is a token of goodwill from Microsoft to Wine something which is in line with the current Microsoft view of the OS market but would have been very surprising not that long ago.
    • PretzelPirate 2y ago
      It's not like Microsoft can force Wine to take the codebase. In order for this to be donated, the Wine project needed to accept it.
    • kergonath 2y ago
      Pretty much, by the look of it. But we still don’t know everything or what exactly the Wine project has on its metaphorical mind.
• RobRivera 2y ago
  Feel free to donate me a 90s Honda Civic