Reply to post: It isn't so simple.

A fine vintage: Wine has run Microsoft Solitaire on Linux for 25 years

Dave Bell

It isn't so simple.

I recall hearing of a US accounting software company, producing software to handle the annual US income tax returns, which actively supports Wine.

I know of other companies that make a point of treating Wine as another Windows version in testing and development.

And yet there is well-known software, with Linux versions available, which suffers from what seems to be woefully inadequate testing. Some of them depend on specialised *Nix software on their servers, yet struggle to maintain Linux-compatible software for their customers to use.

I see far more variation that your reporter does.

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