What Programs Work on Wine?

Why are there not multiple companies that make parallel (unrelated) versions of WINE?

• Here is a quote from the page on the wine wiki... http://wiki.winehq.org/ImportanceOfWine Supply diversification Diversifying your supply is universally considered to be an important aspect of risk management. Yet, The US Department of Justice has "found" that Microsoft Windows is run by more than 95% of personal computers. Even taking Apple's Mac OS into account, Microsoft Windows is still present on more than 80% of computers, and this is likely also true in most other countries, not just in the US. Thus governments, companies and home users all over the world ultimately depend on a single provider: Microsoft. The question is not whether Microsoft has evil intents, or whether it may go out of business, but whether its plans match yours. A company may want to deploy thin clients to simplify administration and save money on per-client Windows licenses. But is Microsoft going to make it viable and undercut its Windows market? Where is the alternative if Microsoft implements its software subscription model? If Microsoft is not interested in catering to your market, then you have no other provider to turn to. To understand more about my question, you should probably read the entire page. Currently, the only compatibility layers that exist (that I know of) are either wine or a derivative of wine (codeweavers, cedega, ect). Why aren't there multiple companies producing their own versions of WINE? According to the article, 80% of computers run windows, so it would BENEFIT the unix like OSes if they could have multiple versions of "WINE", so that we could run programs that wouldn't work in one version. I'm not saying WINE does a bad job of running windows programs; I'm saying that we could probably expect more programs to run if there were some other way of running windows programs on a unix like system. venom104 is online now Report Post Edit/Delete Message

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  Dude, the cost of production will be high like that.