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Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All
gzipped_tar writes to tell us that The Codeweavers "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" has ended in surprise and free software all day Tuesday (October 28, 2008) at the Codeweavers site. A while back Codeweavers gave President Bush a challenge to meet one of several goals before he left office. One of these goals was to lower gas prices in the Twin Cities below $2.79 a gallon, which has since transpired. "How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."
Because the site is down, CodeWeavers specializes in products for Cross-Platform software. Like an office suite that works on Linux, Windows and Mac. Or Mac/Linux support for Windows game without rebooting/virtual machining. Basically they serve as one of the various tools out there for running "windows only" software on other operating systems.
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Codeweavers is just wine with some custom installer apps hooked into it. All codeweavers library fixes are backported into the main wine tree.
Codeweavers is the main source of funding for all wine development, they are big supporters of free software. At the end of the day however, something has to pay the bills.