And they're local! Paul On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Harry Penner <hpenner at gmail.com> wrote: > Mike Miller wrote: >>>> Anything wrong with the GPL version of >>>> VirtualBox? >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Box >>> Besides requiring a Microsoft Windows license IN ADDITION to a Microsoft >>> Office license? Nothing. These are not equivalent pieces of software. >> >> So Codeweavers runs Windows-only programs without using any Microsoft >> software? That does lead to a "lesser of two evils" kind of situation. >> > > Mike, it's just souped-up WINE. Crossover is just a cutting-edge, > semi-closed version of WINE. And they claim that most of what they > develop gets contributed, eventually, to the GPL WINE project. Most of > the stuff they don't give back has to do with ease of installation, for > their corporate audience. Crossover is kind of like Red Hat; they juice > up the OSS and sell support for it, to get in the door at places that > normally wouldn't consider using Linux in the office because they don't > have the time to screw around with WINE to get all their office apps to > work. IMHO Crossover is one of the good guys. > > Harry > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >