>So for whatever reason (joke, marketing, etc.) WINE changed the meaning of the acronym. It's likely they did it for the same reason for which "Windows Command

>So for whatever reason (joke, marketing, etc.) WINE changed the meaning of the acronym. It's likely they did it for the same reason for which "Windows Commander" famously had to change its name to "Total Commander": to avoid infringing upon Microsoft's trademark. Christian Ghisler got a letter from Microsoft's lawyers about the name of his file manager, though [1]; AFAIK, Wine didn't. [1] http://www.ghisler.com/name.htm http://www.ghisler.com/name.htm