[Wine] Is Wine taking my donations and giving them to CrossOver?

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Well I must say.

I certainly feel like a fool now.

I have been contributing to Wine for about five months, and was shocked to see a blatant advertisement for CrossOver, who take the hard work of those who have contributed their intellect for free and sell it for profit, on your home page.

I then discovered through your own FAQ that most Wine developers are employed by CrossOver.

Is this legal?

To claim you are an open source project and take money from those contributing in good faith, and give it to a private for profit company?.

I don't think so.

So I must be misunderstanding something.

Could someone please explain, clearly, whether Wine is an open source project or not? And whether or not Wine purposely cripples it's game playing and other capabilities so that CrossOver can prosper?

There must be a logical explanation, or people who were fooled into donating would have sued Wine for fraud long ago.