WINE Going Production
February 3, 2009
From Slashdot, Dan Kegel of the WINE project posted a forum thread that lead to a wiki page of applications that officially support WINE as a platform. The list is short, for the moment, but not zero.
Think about this for a second. The developers and supporters of these applications are willing to officially support WINE as a platform. Consider this quote from the Slashdot article:
“I was at the credit union today waiting literally hours for a banker-type person to do their job. On the table, a CU industry magazine. I picked it up and started flipping through it. (Interesting how every article followed the same exact business-like structure and format, no matter what the topic.) One of the ads was for some kind of “check transport” device. The thing that zips your check through a U-turn and puts a timestamp or something on it, I think. At the bottom of the ad in big bold letters was the statement:
Compatible with all versions of Windows and Linux with WINE.
I was floored. I got that same feeling as the first few times I started seeing World Wide Web URLs pop up on billboards and on TV commercials.”
The craziest software project ever attempted has gone production.
