2009/2/2 maninalift <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Is there an effort to produce a wine certification? A badge/sticker that can be placed on a product to say "also runs on Linux using wine" > Or perhaps, where the OS badges are placed a little tux and glass of wine. > This would give companies an easy way to get there app running on Linux and provide a reason for them to contribute to Wine. > Perhaps more important even than the badge would be some active courting of software producers. To let them know that they can easily open up a whole new market and generate a lot of good-will and publicity in the computing/IT community by adopting this early. At present I think it's enough to get people to declare that they officially support Wine as a platform. That's a signal to their users that problems are valid application bugs, not (or not just) Wine bugs - so we don't need to certify the apps, their users will provide the impetus to make the app work properly on Wine. So, who do we target to ask to officially support Wine? * Apps that already work very well. * Open source Windows apps - then any problems are visible on both sides. * Shareware authors, particularly in obscure vertical markets - anything that increases their publicity base is good. Then we can add them to http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine - d.
