Sourceforge Community Choice Project of the Month Wine For our April �Community Choice� Project of the Month, the community elected Wine , an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Marcus Meissner, longtime developer of Wine, shared his thoughts about the project�s history, purpose, and direction. SourceForge (SF) : Tell me about the Wine project please. Marcus Meissner (MM) : The Wine project was launched with the goal to run Windows applications on the Linux operating system and also to provide a porting environment for Windows applications to Linux. As it was launched around 1993 these were mostly Windows 3.1 applications. SF : What made you start this? MM : We started this project because a commercial vendor (WABI) alternative has shown it feasible to do and we wanted to provide an opensource implementation. SF : Has the original vision been achieved? MM : Yes, its original vision has been achieved after 15 years of development we had declared a Wine...
