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New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex

Posted by Hemos on from the competing-together dept.

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."

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  1. Re:The All In One comment by HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Troll

    "WINE is bad because it will discourage people from writing native applications. "

    Considering no one writes native applications and never will, why does it matter if we discourage people who will never write native applications unless forced to?

    We must force them to, by profiting off Linux and building an economy around it.

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  2. Why do you bother? by HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Troll


    Are you some kinda super troll who has a degree in trollogy or something? You come here making the most ridiculous posts I've ever seen, you seem more intelligent than this, why dont you use your intelligence at least when you make these posts?

    If you are going to troll, at least troll in an intelligent manner so that I have something to respond to and debate with, this post you just made was a waste of your time. Let me guess, I've somehow emotionally insulted you and now you are going to follow me around and make personal insults because you were hurt by some slashdot post?

    Get a Job please, a real one, I dont mean your job as slashdot troll.

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  3. I guess you dont trust the Linux Kernel by HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Troll



    Or the Xfree86 project.

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  4. Re:Speed up Wine development? Are you sure? by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 0, Troll
    Wine went to the GPL, Transgaming got pissed because it would screw up their buissness

    Yeah, GPL tends to do that.

    Way to go Wine. Bow to the pressure from open source zealots, ghange to GPL and drive away businesses.

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  5. Re:Speed up Wine development? Are you sure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually what happened was, was Transgaming showed up and started taking from Wine without giving back, as the LGPL clearly allowed. It was a wake-up call to the Wine developers whom had never really had to face the prospect of their code being "BSD'ed" like that. The Wine guys decided they didn't like it so much, so they changed the license to regular GPL going forward.

  6. Open Source and Linux by retrogramer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Trying to sell any software for Linux is against
    the idea of Linux, in my opinion. I thought that
    Open Source was Linux. This eventuality really sucks. I guess I'll just have to start supporting
    Billy and his group of butts. Great job, Wine.
    You fail it.