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LWN talks to CodeWeavers Chief Jeremy WhiteLWN talks to CodeWeavers Chief Jeremy WhitePosted Aug 22, 2002 4:41 UTC (Thu) by raindog (guest, #1235)Parent article: LWN talks to CodeWeavers Chief Jeremy White Crossover Office is being watched closely by numerous corporate users I know. It has helped me move one non-technical home user over to Linux and he has enjoyed not rebooting in the month and a half since. Moreover, it helped accomplish this without the use of any officially supported apps: Visio (not supported at the time), Data Becker MP3 Editor, Kazaa and WinMX are all it's used for. He uses OpenOffice for documents, Evolution for mail, and doesn't use anything like Quicken at all. But those apps were the last straw, enough to convince someone who has never touched a command line to blow away his Windows drive and install Mandrake. Of course, he did so while cancelling his AOL account; others may not be so lucky for a while ;) Anyway, WineWhiners are still way too common these days, but it seems to me that it's one of the coolest legacy support technologies ever made. Wine, and especially Crossover, is playing a key part in attracting people to the Linux desktop right now and it's really working. Far from running the same 20 lousy Windows apps forever under Linux, people really are moving to free software wherever they can and just using Wine to fill in because the experience isn't quite native. (Weatherbug works under Wine for example, but was icky enough that it made me write my own simple KDE clone of it.) This is the battle OS/2 lost and at the moment it looks like we're winning. Rock on Jeremy and company.
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