On 9/2/06, Tom Spear speeddymon@gmail.com wrote:
the crossover office product is based on wine, but it is designed to let you run microsoft office, whereas the main wine distribution is currently unable to do that.
And it should also be said that Wine is the "clean" tree (Alexandre doesn't let any half-assed code in), while Crossover uses an "expedient" tree (with a fair amount of code that really isn't right, but happens to make a few key apps like MS Office work).
It's a good division, actually, with lots of cross-pollination. The two trees are kept well in sync. - Dan