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After some happy surfing, i kept running into people saying they used something called ‘Crossover’, and after a while i got curious about what that Crossover thing actually was. Well, to my surprise, it seemed to be another commercial Wine spinoff.

After being initially put off seeing the mention of ‘Commercial’, ‘Open Source’ and ‘Linux’ in one sentence, i decided to put aside my prejudices and actually read what they had to say for themselves. In short it came down to this : Crossover is a commercial project that is built upon the opensource project Wine. When you buy Crossover you get a really neat and nifty user interface for wine and a lot of neat and nifty ways to run Windows Applications. Plus : You get support and all their developments go straight to the Wine project as well. So there you have it : Opensource benifitting from commercial solutions ! Eutopia -does- exist ! Read more