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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

CD Projekt is a public company, which would likely be cautious in relying on complex third-party tools like Wine.

[–] Gawdsausage@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Most businesses rely on third party tools and software libraries. Particularly open source ones.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Valve isn't public, but they seem to be making plenty off of WINE. In fact, companies of all types love building on other projects, because it reduces how much work they need to do.

They just don't seem to care. They could literally hire someone who works on Heroic to make an official Galaxy port reusing most of Heroic's functionality. Yet they don't.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep, no public company would ever use Apache, nginx, AWS. Those are all 3rd party tools.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They are third-party tools used by other thousands of companies.

Wine used to have no product built on top of it, and CodeWeavers is independent.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

Aren't there a bunch of ports based on Wine in a wrapper? Those are all products.