Star CrossOver Office Gets Optimized for Linspire
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Feb 2006 19:08 UTC
Linspire "CodeWeavers and Linspire Wednesday jointly announced the release of CrossOver Office 5.0 for Linspire, a specially optimized version of the product for the Linspire Linux distribution. CrossOver Office enables Linspire users to run Windows applications natively from their Linspire desktop."
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davidiwharper
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2006-01-01

Lindows divorced from Xandros, not Codeweavers or the WINE Project. See http://business.newsforge.com/business/04/05/07/1954206.shtml for the details.

IIRC their original plan was to build a distro based on Xandros Desktop with their own proprietary extensions (CNR), but this fell through shortly thereafter.

I remember hearing some rumours that Xandros was in hot waters with Codeweavers at the same time that they were alleged to have defaulted on the Lindows loan, but this appears to have blown over even if it was true in the first place.

Edited 2006-02-10 12:25

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egon_spengler Member since:
2005-11-20

Codeweavers and Lindows did divorce and it was apparently due to the desire of Lindows to keep some wine changes to themselves (proprietary) and not give back to the wine project.

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