[GTALUG] Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade | ZDNet

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| Microsoft is working to improve Wine on Linux:
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| https://www.zdnet.com/article/wine-for-running-windows-10-apps-on-linux-gets-big-upgrade/
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| And Android too:
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| https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/windows-compatibility-layer-wine-hits-v5-0-on-android/
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| Micrsoft has certainly changed since Bill and Steve left.

Thanks for those links.  Interesting.

Maybe I'm missing something.

I don't see anything in those articles about Microsoft contributing
code to WINE projects.

What I do see is that Microsoft has made a submission to the US Supreme
Court, arguing against Oracle's lower court win against Google.  That
ruling decided that APIs were subject to copyright (disaster!).

Microsoft argues: WINE and WSL show that free use of APIs can work as
a win-win.

This means that it will ill-become them to legally stomp on WINE.
That's a Good Thing.  But it isn't working to improve WINE.