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I buy a license for Crossover every year to support Codeweavers. I know its not much but its what I can do to show my support for such an amazing software (talking about WINE).
It's great to see they are hiring, but I do hope they arent being rash with these openings. Ive work my fair share of tech companies and some have a culture to open positions because of KPIs and then 6 months to a year later have a massive layoff because they were completely off with their projections so now they have to cut positions which include some of the people hired well before the hiring bananza.
i wonder what happens to the excess crossover licenses? do you feed them to the crossover failover dumpovermatron 2000... to fertilize the weeds of windows‽
When I say buy I should have said renew the same license/support. I get the idea that by supporting Crossover I'm reinforcing Windows dominace, but look at Valve with proton and the Steamdeck. Their success shows that Linux is a capable gaming which can get people to try Linux that otherwise would have wrote it off.
I think people who view Wine/Proton as a crutch is missing the point. Even disregarding the fact that it's introducing more people to Linux (me included), I think the bigger point to make is that the future of software (or rather, the emerging meta of software) is cross-platform. Think about all the web apps and Electron apps. The solution to the Linux compatibility issue is not to make a Linux version of the software, it's to set up a system such that one version works for every OS. Wine/Proton is just an unusual extension of that software philosophy.