CodeWeavers

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CodeWeavers is a company that sells a proprietary version of Wine called CrossOver Office, for running Windows applications on Linux. The company was founded in 1996 as a consultancy, eventually moving entirely over to Wine support. Crossover is regularly rebased to new Wine snapshots, and patches that the company's employees write are sent back to the project almost immediately: this distinguishes the company from TransGaming who develop a forked version of Wine called Cedega.

CodeWeavers is a major contributor to the Wine project, a free software / open-source software project that helps Windows applications run on different operating systems, such as Linux and Solaris, and employs the project lead, Alexandre Julliard. They develop and market CrossOver Office, which lets Microsoft software staples like Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel run on Linux, and also provides implementation and consulting services on open-source software projects.

The CEO of the company is Jeremy White.

CodeWeavers is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.

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