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New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex
Shisha writes "Linux Planet is running a story about a new Wine offspring. Basically the Canadian company Transgaming decided, that their version of Wine, WineX, is good not only for running games, but for other Windows programs too. So why not try to sell it? For marketing reasons they're selling it to corporations under the AclereX name. Their website has a datasheet with more details about what they are actually offering. Unlike CodeWeavers, they don't seem to be targeting individuals at all, they'd rather sell to corporations. So no downloads available, sorry. Still it could speed up Wine developement, which is always good. Wine Weekly News discusses some of the reactions of the original Wine authors."
Hmm, sounds like another microsoft. and the amount of code they give back is like... part of a c file. Now with this, they're prolly not going to give back anything, not to mention they're not that great yet where they can just take this and shove it in the businessman's face, but, I forget that microsoft did the same thing. Funny how when microsoft related code is in question, people pull the same moves as microsoft did and have sticky hands as well. It's sick, honestly. These companies are the type that take advantage of opensource, promise something that will keep the true opensource developers happy, then not really fall through on it. I say, dont use transgaming's crap, I've tried winex 3 and vanilla wine worked better than it. Well, on the application front anyways. I bet this new software is winex + vanilla wine. Maybe this will be an eye opener for opensource, stop trying to make linux something its not, a windows compatible operating system. So what all other operating systems do, just open up vmware, becuase eventually, you're probably better off using that, becuase transgaming and codeweavers will probably jack up their pricing in the future. All you're doing when you're trying to make linux windows compatible is giving into microsoft. Make wine support limited for applications, to coax these developers into linux. They fail to realise that they have a good sized market over in linux. Potential new users to their hardware and software. This project is not going to do well in my opinion, transgaming is bound to slip up on a legality and get sued by microsoft. Oh well.