Wine certification and corporate cooperation

[maninalift]

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.

[Susan Cragin]

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.

http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/linux.html
AudioScribe used to do a great promotion of its popular transcription product running under wine. Sadly (?), the program now has a Linux version also. But they still recommend the wine version because it runs more proprietary formats.

[David Gerard]

2009/2/2 maninalift <[email protected]>:

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.

[David Gerard]

2009/2/2 David Gerard <[email protected]>:

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.
Then we can add them to http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine

It just occurred to me to write this:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3283137

If you have a Slashdot login, please vote it up! That should gather us
any number of apps that declare their love for Wine ...


- d.

[David Gerard]

2009/2/3 David Gerard <[email protected]>:

2009/2/2 David Gerard <[email protected]>:

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.
Then we can add them to http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine

It just occurred to me to write this:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3283137

If you have a Slashdot login, please vote it up! That should gather us
any number of apps that declare their love for Wine ...


- d.

[David Gerard]

2009/2/3 David Gerard <[email protected]>:

It just occurred to me to write this:
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3283137
If you have a Slashdot login, please vote it up! That should gather us
any number of apps that declare their love for Wine ...

Now up:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid ... 03/0112249

Let's see if there's useful info amongst the noise!

(And if Dan's mailbox melts.)


- d.