More Light Shed on Project David

Sun writes "Flexbeta.net received from Specops Labs screenshots "proving" that project David (previously covered here) is a real thing. The demo.... Office 2000 install. This is something both Wine and CrossOver Office know how to do for quite some time. In a discussion on wine-devel some people noticed evidence inside the screenshots that project David is a CrossOver Office ripoff."

Comments

Which Kind of Ripoff?

[mfh]

Could this project be based on the leaked MS code, or is it really a CrossOver Office ripoff? I can't tell, but Mike McCormack could.

Pitch for venture capital

[evil_one666]

the specops website is a pretty blatant pitch for venture capital, and not intended to give information to end users. Has an definate air of dodginess...

Re:It looks like a ripoff of wine to me.

[polyp2000]

I would have looked into a way to make this windows apps draw the controls with the linux gui theme.

I wonder just how difficult that would be. A good chunk of the controls are basically pixmaps there would be some constraints as to dimensions and possibly palette issues. But since we have a partially complete native implemetation of the windows API in wine I cant imagine that it would be that much of a mammoth task to intercept API calls and/or use an alternative pixmaps. The wine project are probably more concerned about achieving compatibility at the moment than anything else. None the less I wouldnt mind seeing something along these lines also.

nick...