:Builder UK: Wine Development Stifled by Software Patent
Builder UK: Wine Development Stifled by Software Patent May 13, 2005, 19 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (10098 reads) (Other stories by Ingrid Marson)
"Developers on the Windows compatibility project Wine have been forced to abandon an important feature due to the existence of a Borland patent.
"The open source project Wine allows you to run unmodified Windows programs on Linux through a binary compatibility layer. It also allows you to compile Windows applications to create a Linux binary through a tool called Winelib..."