There are some "free software" graphics editors and similar applications
which are dependent on non-free Microsoft Windows components. These
components are non-free programs written by Microsoft, bundled in MS Windows,
and relied upon by these "free" programs. Many of these developers will no
Yep! There are plenty of Windows-only free software projects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Windows-only_free_software
Of course, many of these have alternatives in GNU/Linux that work well too,
or could be ported.
Wine is being used in ReactOS, a free replacement for Windows. Apparently
ReactOS might ship with some non-free software though, which is a shame.
Anyway, to me I consider Wine to be similar to Gnash. Gnash is primarily used
for running non-free ActionScript, but at least that's better than r
Thanks for the responses guys. :)
The list has Google Chrome =/
I personally use it to test my Windows ports applications instead of testing
them directly on Windows, like this I know that they work on wine and they
have a big change to work on Windows too.
The OSSWin project has a number of free software Windoze projects.
As these are "Open Source" programs, please be aware that they may not meet
the standards of Free Software. Please drink responsibly.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
One additional caveat: I don'
I used to use Wine to run Notepad++, a free Windows-only text editor, before
I started using Emacs. So yeah, I don't think there are very many
Windows-only free programs, but there are a few.
I used it to write [https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/burn-trisquel-cd-images
this documentation]
I suspect that most people use it for that but surely there must be free
software programs available for Windows too?
Although, if there were a free program for Windows and I liked it, I'd rather
port it to run on GNU/Linux instead...
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