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"Missing Link" In Windows Emulation Unveiled?

Posted by Hemos on from the probably-not dept.

ben_ writes "According to this article on inq7.net, a Philippines company called SpecOps has revealed their Project David, a middleware layer that solves the problem Wine has been working at for years and will "enable all major Microsoft Windows applications to run on the free and open source Linux OS". Further (and more sceptical) analysis at Linux Electrons." I'm with Linux Electrons on this; as nice as it sounds, the information about David comes via Press Release which as we all know are founts of dependability *cough*.

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  1. Yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's only symbolic.

    1. Re:Yeah, but... by Negatyfus · · Score: 5, Funny
      The article has one thing right, though:
      Unlike Windows, Linux is an operating system
  2. Re:the press release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't you seen the Microsoft ads? There is no TCO advantage in linux.

  3. Re:Read the OSNews article on david by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "they're at 0% of dev / engineering."

    Well... you have to give it to them... they still don't have any bugs

  4. Re:is the web page broken or am I retard? by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    The webpage isn't brokem it's just that they are running it on IIS under their emulation and there are still a few bugs to work out.... ...yeah, that's it...

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