Codeweavers Giving Away Software Today!

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Apple or Linux fans, rejoice! CodeWeavers, as part of a semi-promotional stunt, semi-political gaffe, is making their catalog of CrossOver software available to everyone with a valid email address for October 28th, only! If you don’t know what CodeWeavers, with the CrossOver software, is out to do: Their mission is to make the Linux and Mac operating systems fully Windows compatible. CrossOver is an (from what I can tell, their main site has been down all day. Thanks Digg!) API-GUI that runs off the Wine source tree and allows you to run Windows-based applications. Hurry over to their website and grab your version before midnight CST (10:00 PST, 1:00 EST, 6:00 GMT) , then come back here and read up on what’s going on!

UPDATE: CrossOver is a tweaked version of the Wine program, with two different packages; a Pro package, that emphasizes stability and reliability over a longer release cycle, and a Games package, that puts maximum compatibility towards games like World of Warcraft or Steam-based games, to mention a couple.

This whole thing started when CodeWeaver’s CEO, Jeremy White, made a challenge to President Bush that if he met one of his six ‘Lame Duck‘ goals before he left office (gas drops to $2.79 a gallon, milk drops to $3.50 a gallon, U.S. jobs exceed 138 million, the Twin Cities median home price returns to $233,000 or Osama bin Laden is captured), the CrossOver software would be made free to the American people for one day only.

As gas recently hit $2.79 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was compelled to follow up on his promise, and now you can grab the Pro suite for either platform for free. It regularly retails for $40 for the Pro version, and those that get it free through this promotion can grab a support and updates license renewal after a year for only $35.

Say what you want, you can’t argue with free software; and, if this promotion pans out, Jeremy White might just be a genius.

Picture courtesy of: CodeWeavers;

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