On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM, muncrief <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well I must say. > > I certainly feel like a fool now. > > I have been contributing to Wine for about five months, and was shocked to see a blatant advertisement for CrossOver, who take the hard work of those who have contributed their intellect for free and sell it for profit, on your home page. > CrossOver provides the servers for several of the wine pages. > I then discovered through your own FAQ that most Wine developers are employed by CrossOver. > > > Is this legal? > Yes. Unlike TransGaming, Crossover is helping to develop wine. This is the same way redhat helps develop linux. > > To claim you are an open source project and take money from those contributing in good faith, and give it to a private for profit company?. > > I don't think so. > > So I must be misunderstanding something. > > Could someone please explain, clearly, whether Wine is an open source project or not? > Wine is definitely open source. > >And whether or not Wine purposely cripples it's game playing and other capabilities so that CrossOver can prosper? > There is no intentional crippling of wine for CrossOver to prosper. John
