Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 26, 2005 05:42 PM
"open source software developer CodeWeavers"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... "ended up building open source software that allows users of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems to run Windows applications"
Virtually everyone who has ever looked into Wine or CrossOver knows this, but for "teh n00bs" (and apparently the editors) CrossOver Office(TM) is NOT open source. It's Proprietary, though that was not mentioned once in the article, at least that I saw. Let's not confuse things here. It CONTAINS an open source project (Wine - LGPL) but also contains a lot of proprietary code as well, meaning it certainly doesn't fit the open source definition as a whole.
That said, CodeWeaver's does an excellent job of supporting Wine (the actual open source part) by contributing much of the code it develops back to it (more than is required by the LGPL) and even employing the project leader.
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CrossOver Not Open Source
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 26, 2005 05:42 PM"ended up building open source software that allows users of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems to run Windows applications"
Virtually everyone who has ever looked into Wine or CrossOver knows this, but for "teh n00bs" (and apparently the editors) CrossOver Office(TM) is NOT open source. It's Proprietary, though that was not mentioned once in the article, at least that I saw. Let's not confuse things here. It CONTAINS an open source project (Wine - LGPL) but also contains a lot of proprietary code as well, meaning it certainly doesn't fit the open source definition as a whole.
That said, CodeWeaver's does an excellent job of supporting Wine (the actual open source part) by contributing much of the code it develops back to it (more than is required by the LGPL) and even employing the project leader.
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