[Wine] Re: CrossOver Linux Vs. Wine

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Franky Travian

> Wine could be today better than CrossOver Linux, but who knows, perhaps you are sabotaging and delaying the Wine project. 


Number 1 Wine development branch more often runs new software before CrossOver does.

CrossOver has a GUI for installing Wine does not.

CrossOver is more a tested version fork of Mainline wine.   Tested to work with a particular list of applications and freases there.

By the way CrossOver Linux other than the GUI that is closed source the complete wine source code used in it is down-loadable and you could choose to build it yourself.   So any sabotage could be confirmed.

The graphical GUI of CrossOver is very old feature of CrossOver.   Existed before CrossOver started funding wine in a large way.

The GUI is a form of technical support.  Guided installation avoiding particular bugs.  Without needing the huge labor.

Wine policy of not supporting most GUI's include CrossOver comes from lack of debugging information Wine can use.   Wine does not stop others from developing GUI's to complete with CrossOver.

Yes wine maintainer even that employed by CrossOver.  Has a fixed set of policies to follow that are decided by the developers of wine. 

Its also interesting.  OS X people are more likely to buy CrossOver than Linux people.   CrossOver and Wine really does support two different markets.