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[Ben Klein]

2009/3/7 Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Rating: Garbage
>> What works: Installer
>> What doesn't work: Starting the game
>> What wasn't tested: N/A
>> Additional comments: This works in Crossover Games, but not in Wine"
>> ^^ I don't have a problem with this. (If it mentioned Cedega/WineX or
>> ReactOS, I'd probably remove the additional comment, but leave the
>> test data intact. CodeWeavers products are a special case :) )
>
> As a user, I take offense to the favoritism showed here.  Codeweavers
> buying things for winehq should not negatively impact the usefulness
> of the service for non-codeweavers users.  That is, if I pay for
> Cedega but not for Crossover, why is winehq discriminating against me
> in terms of what comments it allows?

Because Codeweavers sponsors Wine directly (e.g. hosting the website),
because CrossOver is *very* close to opensource Wine, and because
Codeweavers devs are active contributors to Wine. Cedega is a series
of hacks on a now ancient fork of Wine (before the license changed to
LGPL).