Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 27, 2005 02:00 PM
"It CONTAINS an open source project (Wine - LGPL) but also contains a lot of proprietary code as well"
My reading of things is that they have paying customers that pay to get certain things working and so Codeweavers sometimes resorts to ugly hack to get these things accomplished.
There is some delay getting things contributed back to wine and surely some of that is to differentiate crossover from wine, but I don't think there is much that doesn't get contributed back eventually and in many cases they don't want those ugly hacks going back into wine they want to come up with a proper solution.
Are you sure you are not confusing crossover office with Cedega?
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Re:CrossOver Not Open Source
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 27, 2005 02:00 PMMy reading of things is that they have paying customers that pay to get certain things working and so Codeweavers sometimes resorts to ugly hack to get these things accomplished.
There is some delay getting things contributed back to wine and surely some of that is to differentiate crossover from wine, but I don't think there is much that doesn't get contributed back eventually and in many cases they don't want those ugly hacks going back into wine they want to come up with a proper solution.
Are you sure you are not confusing crossover office with Cedega?
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