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Re:Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Develop... by asdf3 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:10AM (#7420099)
Unity would have to fork Mono, as would Gnome and Canonical and Redhat, etc... The comments here seem very trusting of Microsoft. If it was Oracle a fork would be a given.
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Re:Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Develop... by dualogy on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:47AM (#7420391)
I think they're already using their own fork of an older Mono version. They couldn't work out a mutually beneficial licensing deal with Xamarin to keep using their newest Mono versions or something.

I think Unity have a good relationship with MS, so Mono being moved to MS should be good news to Unity -- for a while.

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