“Open source advocates spend a lot of time trying to convince
people that open source and business can actually go hand in hand.
Unfortunately, the idea of giving things away while making a profit
really doesn’t mesh for a lot of people, and so it behooves us in
the community to put our money where our mouths are and show that
what we espouse can actually be done…”“One area where open source and business not only merge, but
actually weave in and out amongst one another, is the Wine (Wine Is
Not an Emulator) project, hosted at www.winehq.org. Wine at various
times has been developed in conjunction with Corel Corporation,
CodeWeavers, Lindows.com Incorporated, and TransGaming
Technologies…”
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