2009/3/7 Sparr <spa...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> "Rating: Garbage >> What works: Installer >> What doesn't work: Starting the game >> What wasn't tested: N/A >> Additional comments: This works in Crossover Games, but not in Wine" >> ^^ I don't have a problem with this. (If it mentioned Cedega/WineX or >> ReactOS, I'd probably remove the additional comment, but leave the >> test data intact. CodeWeavers products are a special case :) ) > > As a user, I take offense to the favoritism showed here. Codeweavers > buying things for winehq should not negatively impact the usefulness > of the service for non-codeweavers users. That is, if I pay for > Cedega but not for Crossover, why is winehq discriminating against me > in terms of what comments it allows?
Because Codeweavers sponsors Wine directly (e.g. hosting the website), because CrossOver is *very* close to opensource Wine, and because Codeweavers devs are active contributors to Wine. Cedega is a series of hacks on a now ancient fork of Wine (before the license changed to LGPL).
