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		__s on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine tea... https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono#Microsoft_.NET for why Mono is relevant to Wine

nequo on Aug 28, 2024 [–]

Thank you, I’ve been looking for an explanation of this. So Mono is useful to Wine because its users care more about licensing and running legacy software: Mono is free software and an acceptable runtime for pre-.NET 5.0 stuff.

high_5 on Aug 28, 2024 | [–]

Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.

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