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krupan ◴[01 Feb 25 20:07 UTC] No.42901726[source]▶

The discussion here reminds me so much of early C# days. It was being touted as open source and cross platform back then, and Microsoft even hired a top GNOME developer to port it to Linux and GNOME was going to be rewritten in C#. It was going to be amazing. Never quite panned out.

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1. kelnos ◴[01 Feb 25 21:05 UTC] No.42902325[source]▶

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I think you might have the history mixed up a bit. The Mono project started without Microsoft's involvement (and they were probably even annoyed by it at the time).

GNOME was betting on their own Vala language, which is still a thing, but never really gained much traction.

Eventually Microsoft bought Mono during their embrace of open source.

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