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

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM, muncrief <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Well I must say.
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>  I certainly feel like a fool now.
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>  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.
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CrossOver provides the servers for several of the wine pages.

>  I then discovered through your own FAQ that most Wine developers are employed by CrossOver.
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>  Is this legal?
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Yes. Unlike TransGaming, Crossover is helping to develop wine. This is
the same way redhat helps develop linux.
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>  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?.
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>  I don't think so.
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>  So I must be misunderstanding something.
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>  Could someone please explain, clearly, whether Wine is an open source project or not?
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Wine is definitely open source.
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>And whether or not Wine purposely cripples it's game playing and
other capabilities so that CrossOver can prosper?
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There is no intentional crippling of wine for CrossOver to prosper.

John