Is there an effort to produce a wine certification? A badge/sticker that can be placed on a product to say "also runs on Linux using wine" Or perhaps, where the OS badges are placed a little tux and glass of wine. This would give companies an easy way to get there app running on Linux and provide a reason for them to contribute to Wine. Perhaps more important even than the badge would be some active courting of software producers. To let them know that they can easily open up a whole new market and generate a lot of good-will and publicity in the computing/IT community by adopting this early.
>Is there an effort to produce a wine certification? A badge/sticker that can be placed on a product to say "also runs on Linux using wine" > >Or perhaps, where the OS badges are placed a little tux and glass of wine. > >This would give companies an easy way to get there app running on Linux and provide a reason for them to contribute to Wine. > >Perhaps more important even than the badge would be some active courting of software producers. To let them know that they can easily open up a whole new market and generate a lot of good-will and publicity in the computing/IT community by adopting this early.http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/linux.html AudioScribe used to do a great promotion of its popular transcription product running under wine. Sadly (?), the program now has a Linux version also. But they still recommend the wine version because it runs more proprietary formats.
2009/2/2 maninalift <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> Is there an effort to produce a wine certification? A badge/sticker that can be placed on a product to say "also runs on Linux using wine" > Or perhaps, where the OS badges are placed a little tux and glass of wine. > This would give companies an easy way to get there app running on Linux and provide a reason for them to contribute to Wine. > Perhaps more important even than the badge would be some active courting of software producers. To let them know that they can easily open up a whole new market and generate a lot of good-will and publicity in the computing/IT community by adopting this early.At present I think it's enough to get people to declare that they officially support Wine as a platform. That's a signal to their users that problems are valid application bugs, not (or not just) Wine bugs - so we don't need to certify the apps, their users will provide the impetus to make the app work properly on Wine. So, who do we target to ask to officially support Wine? * Apps that already work very well. * Open source Windows apps - then any problems are visible on both sides. * Shareware authors, particularly in obscure vertical markets - anything that increases their publicity base is good. Then we can add them to http://wiki.winehq.org/AppsThatSupportWine - d.