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News Google funds Wine work

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by CardJoe, 20 Feb 2008.

  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    CardJoe, 20 Feb 2008
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  2. naokaji

    naokaji whatever

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    its only a question of time until google actually starts making its own linux distro, google backing wine is just a big hint in that direction and with their good financial background... watch out ms, they are comming for you.
     
    naokaji, 20 Feb 2008
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  3. identikit

    identikit Minimodder

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    Google? WINE? Linux?... Photoshop! Hell yeah!
     
    identikit, 20 Feb 2008
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  4. p3n

    p3n What's a Dremel?

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    surely the mac version would be a shorter bodge? :>
     
    p3n, 20 Feb 2008
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  5. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    Hmm, CodeWeavers != Wine...

    CodeWeavers == Crossover == PAYED, Wine is released under GPL and developed independantly... CodeWeavers just base their releases upon the Wine project...

    So, Google chunked out to the wrong project so it seems...
     
    Glider, 20 Feb 2008
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  6. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    Wine provides windows environment libraries, to get the mac version running they would need to start providing all the mac libraries.
     
    Jamie, 20 Feb 2008
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  7. UncertainGod

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    Google have been funding WINE for ages as well as dozens of other projects, not least among which being Mozilla.
     
    UncertainGod, 20 Feb 2008
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  8. coniferous

    coniferous What's a Rotary Power Tool?

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    Sadly i fit into both of these stereotypes...
     
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  9. chicorasia

    chicorasia What's a Dremel?

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    Macintoshes running windows, PCs running OSX, Linux running photoshop.... these are strange times indeed...

    This is great. Some apps will never go open-source - autoCAD, Adobe CS and many many others - but if one can get them to run on Linux professionals and businesses have one more choice of OS - that means we have more competition. In the end, everybody wins!
     
    chicorasia, 20 Feb 2008
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  10. TomH

    TomH BELTALOWDA!

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    By that logic, you would think Adobe might actually consider porting it to Linux. If it was simple, they'd probably have done it by now.

    All hail Google, is all I can say.
     
    TomH, 21 Feb 2008
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  11. completemadness

    completemadness What's a Dremel?

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    Umm i thought codeweavers is a company that uses wine in its apps (like cedega does) but isn't actually wine itself?

    I know they make "Crossover Office" (which works very nicely)

    The page on codeweavers site
    seems to support the fact they are not actually the wine developers, although they do contribute
     
    completemadness, 21 Feb 2008
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