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[p4bl0]

On the topic of Microsoft is not less evil than before: they recently released a GUI kit called MAUI, thereby stealing the name of the already existing KDE project. They know and they're not being nice about it.

https://mauikit.org/

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-...

https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-maui-kde-row/

[nsriv → p4bl0]

One is MauiKit stylized MAUi and another is .NET MAUI. The acronyms for both are generic enough that this complaint feels like a reach

[Hickfang → nsriv]

> One is MauiKit stylized MAUi and another is .NET MAUI. The acronyms for both are generic enough that this complaint feels like a reach.

Yea, like the Microsoft Palm PC isn't a rip-off of the Palm Pilot :]

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-introduces-p...

[rumanator → nsriv]

Do you honestly believe that it's a reach to state that both are called maui?

[Guest42 → nsriv]

Yes, just like the letter C is generic when naming a programming language.