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Why would they use Wine when they have free and unlimited access to the real deal?
by Kwpolska 2y ago
Why would they use Wine when they have free and unlimited access to the real deal?
- aussieguy1234 2y agoWell, let's say they wanted to use Linux, but run their windows software on it.
- Kwpolska 2y agoWhy would they want to use Linux though?
- aussieguy1234 2y agoWho knows why, but they already are. Apparently hotmail in the early days used Linux for some servers. Linux is pretty common in Azure.
- Kwpolska 2y agoHotmail was built on top of Unix by someone else, and then Microsoft acquired it. Yes, Microsoft does do Linux these days, they even have their distro, but this still does not answer the question of why they would replace real Windows with Wine and risk compatibility issues, if they don’t have to pay anything for licenses.