http://lwn.net/Articles/7775/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "LWN talks to CodeWeavers Chief Jeremy White". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/8295/rss 2002-08-22T04:41:06+00:00 raindog 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.<p>Of course, he did so while cancelling his AOL account; others may not be so lucky for a while ;)<p>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. <p>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.<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/7899/rss 2002-08-16T18:10:43+00:00 stonedown And of course I want the Crossover Plugin for myself. &lt;grin&gt; http://lwn.net/Articles/7898/rss 2002-08-16T18:09:33+00:00 stonedown Jeremy is right. Choice is a good thing. If you don't want to run Windows apps, don't run them. But, don't attack Codeweavers and WINE for breaking down Microsoft's monopoly barriers to competition. Every Windows API function which gets implemented in WINE is another crack in the wall. It's a wall worth many billions of dollars to Microsoft, and I'd personally like to see it crumble like the fabled walls of Jericho.<p>Kudos to Codeweavers and WINE and congratulations for their amazing success so far. I hope it turns into a great business success for Codeweavers as well.<p>I'm planning to purchase the full Crossover package when Mandrake 9.0 comes out, so I can investigate moving my mom from Windows 98 over to Mandrake Linux. She mainly just uses Word, IE, and Eudora, but not being able to install and run much of the software in the stores could be a bit of a loss for her.<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/7813/rss 2002-08-15T18:20:08+00:00 darkside4u I seriously like what this man sais even use codeweavers stuff myself <br>may wine grow and grow soon I won't have too sort any more freinds<br>windows probs just install Linux *Ounce and Codewevers plugins ahh peace atlast :-) happy Sam