most beneficial commercial wine software?

bmaupin · Post by **bmaupin** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:13 pm

I'm sure the best way to support Wine is directly, through contributing code, money, or other resources.

but out of curiosity, if one were to purchase a third-party commercial solution, such as Crossover, Bordeaux, or whatever it is that Transgaming is offering these days, what would be the best choice in terms of contributing to Wine? I guess what I'm asking is which of the wine-based commercial solutions contributes back to Wine in the most beneficial way, whether it be through code contributed back to the Wine code base, or through other means.

bmaupin · Post by **bmaupin** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:37 pm

for some reason I can't edit my post...

I wanted to add that I did see in the FAQ that Crossover/Codeweavers seems to be very beneficial to Wine, while Transgaming not so much:

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-72731b2 ... 925ce16460

I wonder about the others, though. in particular Bordeaux, but I know there are others as well.

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:48 pm

Codeweavers does great things or Wine, and make a great product... if you want to buy something, I'd say buy Crossover... I doubt any other company that sells anything based with Wine comes close to being as beneficial to Wine as a whole. While there are tons of things I'd change about Crossover to make it a much more worthwhile product for me, they do a ton of work to make Wine better.

Post by **DanKegel** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:37 am

Agreed. Codeweavers, the author of Crossover, employ half the guys who
write Wine. Nobody else even comes close to helping Wine as
much as Codeweavers does.

I use Wine a lot, and every time I do, I think about how much
Codeweavers has done for the project.

(Disclaimer: I have worked for a company that hired Codeweavers
to improve Wine.)