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Builder UK: Wine Development Stifled by Software Patent

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“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…”


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