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[Austin English]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
>

Yes, they do do those things, which is why they have ads on winehq and
text ads saying those things. But that doesn't mean their product is
special in relation to the AppDB, especially since Crossover allows
hacks, whereas Wine doesn't.

-- 
-Austin