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Another perfect execution of embrace(Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin), extend(Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mon
by stcroixx 2y ago
Another perfect execution of embrace(Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin), extend(Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork), extinguish(we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET) for anyone who thought MS had actually changed since the bad old days.
- djmips 2y agoOnly wrinkle is that Mono was originally a .NET runtime for Linux. So they weren't embracing an external standard but a knock-off of their own. But I still agree with elements of your statement in principle. However, giving Mono back to open source is an interesting development and I don't know how it fits in your narrative.
- fluoridation 2y agoThat's not what EEE is. For starters, the term applies to standards, not to implementations. The standard here is .NET, which Microsoft controlled from the start.