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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
by 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 agoSo Microsoft gave the Wine project the software equivalent of a stained mattress?
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoThe 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 agoIt'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 agoPretty much, by the look of it. But we still don’t know everything or what exactly the Wine project has on its metaphorical mind.