Wine 1.4 released [LWN.net]

Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 12:40 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Wine 1.4 released by JoeBuck
Parent article: Wine 1.4 released

What "claim otherwise" in the name?

WINdows Emulator.

Cheers,
Wol

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Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 13:48 UTC (Thu) by mstefani (subscriber, #31644) [Link]

Like LWN, Wine is now just Wine (notice the capitalization) and not an acronym anymore.

Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 18:12 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Even when it was an acronym, it stood for Wine Is Not an Emulator.

Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 9, 2012 2:05 UTC (Fri) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]

Except when it first started.

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The name Wine initially was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. Its meaning later shifted to the recursive backronym, Wine Is Not an Emulator in order to differentiate the software from other emulators. While the name sometimes appears in the forms WINE and wine, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form Wine.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29