Kudos to the judge for making the effort to really understand the issues. I'm curious, did WINE ever come up as an example of an alternative API implementation

Kudos to the judge for making the effort to really understand the issues. I'm curious, did WINE ever come up as an example of an alternative API implementation? I'd actually find that a more interesting case, as it's an alternative implementation of APIs where the creator never even envisioned there being an alternative implementation. Java, despite what Oracle may say, was always spec'd to a point where alternative implementations were probable, and many JVM improvements started off as proprietary forks/implementations.