WineHQ to take over Mono The Mono project was started in 2001 to develop a .NET environment for Linux systems. Microsoft has owned that project since 2016, but has not made a major release since 2019. The company has now https://www.mono-project.com/ that Mono is being handed over to the WineHQ organization, which will maintain https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine-mono/mono going forward. Microsoft, meanwhile, is steering users toward its "modern fork" that it continues to maintain. https://lwn.net/Articles/987465/