The CrossOver version of Wine is fully available as free software. It's the little installer utility, and crap like like the SafeDisc copy protection support, and MS DLL's which aren't. Most people just install <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=CEBBACD8-C094-4255-B702-DE3BB768148F#filelist" title="microsoft.com">Windows Installer</a microsoft.com> in Wine themselves, as well as a couple of other MS DLL's like DCOM, and find the no-cd cracks for SafeDisc games though. (See <a href="http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~rspretty/serverinfo.html?ddo=%2Fwinetips%2Fconfig.html" title="dion.ne.jp">Sidenet</a dion.ne.jp>)
The stuff that CrossOver includes and doesn't open, isn't theirs to open for the most part, it's Microsoft's freely distributable stuff. Work is coming along nicely on Wine native versions of these components, and the folks at Codeweavers, and Transgaming are good about helping to make that happen.
I follow <a href="http://kerneltraffic.org/wine/latest.html" title="kerneltraffic.org">Wine Traffic</a kerneltraffic.org> pretty closely, and there's lots of really neat stuff coming real soon, like webcam support for MSN, etc. I'm not sure why anyone would want Office for Linux though, OpenOffice2 is amazing. It's worth it to just do the switch now, rather than later.
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Re:CrossOver Not Open Source
Posted by: Curtman on June 27, 2005 10:50 AMThe stuff that CrossOver includes and doesn't open, isn't theirs to open for the most part, it's Microsoft's freely distributable stuff. Work is coming along nicely on Wine native versions of these components, and the folks at Codeweavers, and Transgaming are good about helping to make that happen.
I follow <a href="http://kerneltraffic.org/wine/latest.html" title="kerneltraffic.org">Wine Traffic</a kerneltraffic.org> pretty closely, and there's lots of really neat stuff coming real soon, like webcam support for MSN, etc. I'm not sure why anyone would want Office for Linux though, OpenOffice2 is amazing. It's worth it to just do the switch now, rather than later.
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