Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
by waterhouse on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:24PM
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> everyone is doing work for it for free.
Actually, there is a company called CodeWeavers[1], which sells software based on Wine. CodeWeavers's Wiki page says "The CrossOver version of Wine is regularly refreshed with the latest free Wine patches; likewise, patches from the company are sent back to the Wine project almost immediately. CodeWeavers is a major contributor to the Wine project ... hosts the project's website, and employs the project's maintainer, Alexandre Julliard, as their CTO."
Alexandre Julliard has his own Wikipedia page, also saying "He now works full-time on Wine for CodeWeavers."[2] If you look at Wine's changelogs like in https://www.winehq.org/announce/5.19 , you see his name on a bunch of commits. Piotr and Jacek Caban are names I also recognize as having been prominent contributors for years, and googling quickly shows they are CodeWeavers employees as well. So it seems true. I'm tempted to go buy CrossOver just to support their effort.
Actually, there is a company called CodeWeavers[1], which sells software based on Wine. CodeWeavers's Wiki page says "The CrossOver version of Wine is regularly refreshed with the latest free Wine patches; likewise, patches from the company are sent back to the Wine project almost immediately. CodeWeavers is a major contributor to the Wine project ... hosts the project's website, and employs the project's maintainer, Alexandre Julliard, as their CTO."
Alexandre Julliard has his own Wikipedia page, also saying "He now works full-time on Wine for CodeWeavers."[2] If you look at Wine's changelogs like in https://www.winehq.org/announce/5.19 , you see his name on a bunch of commits. Piotr and Jacek Caban are names I also recognize as having been prominent contributors for years, and googling quickly shows they are CodeWeavers employees as well. So it seems true. I'm tempted to go buy CrossOver just to support their effort.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWeavers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Julliard