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> Hard to see how this can be done legally. Why? Things like Wine and Proton exist and Windows is proprietary.
by bobsomers 5y ago
> Hard to see how this can be done legally.
Why? Things like Wine and Proton exist and Windows is proprietary.
- Jiocus 5y agoEven ReactOS, an open-source implementation of Windows exists.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoHow many years has the Wine project been running? There is absolutely no equivalent for macOS frameworks. GNUStep is a tiny part of the picture, and in addition has not kept up with the fairly radical changes that Apple has introduced to the frameworks that GNUStep does correspond to.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoThat's a practical question, not related to the legal question.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThe legal question I was referring was related to my perception that the goal was "source code compatibility for macOS applications" now, not after some essentially unbounded engineering task. That may have been incorrect.