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I'm confused...Crossover (a commercial product using Wine as its backend and contributes back to the Wine project[1]) uses the term "bottles" for its container-
by morganvachon 5y ago
I'm confused...Crossover (a commercial product using Wine as its backend and contributes back to the Wine project[1]) uses the term "bottles" for its container-like method to install Windows apps on Linux and macOS. Is this an offshoot or extension of Crossover, or is it a blatant ripoff of their already existing service and name? Codeweavers (the makers of Crossover) have been using the term "bottle" in this paradigm since at least the late 2000s[2].
[1] https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover#linux https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover#linux
[2] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/crossover-and-bottles.546722 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/crossover-and-bottles.5...
- Closi 5y agoThe WineHQ official documentation makes reference to WINEPREFIX being termed a 'bottle', and there are quite a few previous open source projects listed with titles stemming from bottles, so I'm not sure that it's a crossover specific term (and if it is, it seems to have been adopted by the open source project too). And let's be honest, although cute, it's a pretty obvious term for a project called Wine.
- mechanical_bear 5y ago“Blatant ripoff” is a bit harsh. “Bottles” isn’t exactly that original or clever when considering the software that undergirds it.
- jkepler 5y agoEspecially considering that the wine project which Crossover relies in and contributes to also uses the term 'bottles' to encapsulate how they create different Windows environments.
- a-saleh 5y agoAfaik, this project is reasonably old as well, I remember looking at early versions when I was at the uni around 2010.