[SGVLUG] CrossOver for free on October 31

[Doug Vargas]

Agreed, I've been thinking about getting crossover for a while now and this is just the push I need. I love the idea of having a supported and polished version of wine. And I have windows on a desktop but for my laptop wine is great for games and the odd windows-only utility.

Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

>
>On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:03:10 -0700, Steve M Bibayoff <bibayoff at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> I normally I don't promote non-Free software. And am not in this case
>> either, but if anyone is interested:
>> "CODEWEAVERS SOFTWARE FREE FOR DOWNLOAD FOR 24 HOURS ON OCTOBER 31,
>2012"
>
>CodeWeavers has been at the heart of the open source Wine project for over
>fifteen years.  It is my understanding that Crossover is mostly a high
>quality, supported packaging of Wine, and that CodeWeavers has been a very
>good Free software citizen who is worthy of support (assuming you have some
>need to run Windows software).
>
>-braddock
>
>