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WineX for free?
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by worker201:
oops, didn't know people actually thought that project was a good idea
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This is a nice report about it:
http://curmudgeongamer.com/article.php?story=20030806192631961
solo:
WineX is open source. They just don't make binaries. Wine is GPLed, so WineX cannot be anything more than GPLed anyway. If it were not open source, they couldn't have a CVS repository very welll could they? . But parts of it are closed source I believe, namely the CD-ROM protectedion stuff that ensures a CD-ROM wasnt copied etc.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by Fury: Freedom Fighter:
WineX is open source. They just don't make binaries. Wine is GPLed, so WineX cannot be anything more than GPLed anyway. If it were not open source, they couldn't have a CVS repository very welll could they? . But parts of it are closed source I believe, namely the CD-ROM protectedion stuff that ensures a CD-ROM wasnt copied etc.
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All their "easy-to-use" stuff(like the updater, auto-installer,...) is kept closed source.
Transgaming prommised to give all code and not only the CVS version.
I would never pay a single Euro for such a company...
PS: WineX is not GPL, they're even against it.
[ March 15, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
preacher:
I would and I did pay for it, it works twice as well as the shitty free Wine, and supports 10 times more games. Worthy of my $30 indeed.
enjoijeff:
I found it free... No problems so far... I found an RPM so there was no need for any frustrating work... and games are installing no problem... (I only found WineX3, because I looked up the games I was wanting to run and they were all supported at 2.0)
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