They have the potential to take a serious bite out of Windows if it enshittifies further.
*when
I buy a license for Crossover every year to support Codeweavers. I know its not much but its what I can do to show my support for such an amazing software (talking about WINE).
It’s great to see they are hiring, but I do hope they arent being rash with these openings. Ive work my fair share of tech companies and some have a culture to open positions because of KPIs and then 6 months to a year later have a massive layoff because they were completely off with their projections so now they have to cut positions which include some of the people hired well before the hiring bananza.
i wonder what happens to the excess crossover licenses? do you feed them to the crossover failover dumpovermatron 2000… to fertilize the weeds of windows‽
When I say buy I should have said renew the same license/support. I get the idea that by supporting Crossover I’m reinforcing Windows dominace, but look at Valve with proton and the Steamdeck. Their success shows that Linux is gaming capable which can get people to try Linux that otherwise would have wrote it off.
Edit: swapped ‘capable’ and ‘gaming’
I think people who view Wine/Proton as a crutch is missing the point. Even disregarding the fact that it’s introducing more people to Linux (me included), I think the bigger point to make is that the future of software (or rather, the emerging meta of software) is cross-platform. Think about all the web apps and Electron apps. The solution to the Linux compatibility issue is not to make a Linux version of the software, it’s to set up a system such that one version works for every OS. Wine/Proton is just an unusual extension of that software philosophy.
Doesn’t look like they really want to pay 'em
Edit: there’s no salary listed, y’all. Don’t put up with that shit.
Damn. These kids need to wake up and stop getting ripped off. Salary range in the listing is the law in many states now and much of the world.
It’s basic self respect to expect it in the listing, and ask why it’s not there, when it’s missing.
First sentence “… they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team…”.
And then proceed to list no salary.
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It was different before the dark times, and it’s different again. Several states, including CA, passed laws requiring salary ranges to be listed. Technically, CodeWeavers is in violation of a few state laws by advertising remote work.
Also, a $130k cap is hilariously low.
why do you say that lol the ads def seem to be for paid positions?
Is that a question?
They don’t list any pay rates.
We already know they pay 100-150k
How are we supposed to know this?
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My point is the fact that they aren’t willing to advertise their compensation is a red flag.
Then most companies have red flags. Not saying that shouldn’t be changed, but it is the norm at present for the majority of industries. And if it were to change, that certainly doesn’t negate an applicant’s responsibility to research the company (and honestly the industry as a whole, but that’s neither here nor there).
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/quick-facts-about-state-salary-range-transparency-laws/
It’s also a teensy bit illegal to play that explorative game.
But yeah, fuck most companies.
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What’s the technical diffence between CrossOver and just running Wine/Proton?
If there’s none, doesn’t it make more sense to support Wine directly?
I think CrossOver is designed to have better compatibility with specific programs (MS office, adobe programs etc)
Crossover is a for profit organisation + software but their contributions to wine are open sourced/pushed upstream to the wine repo
I see, thanks!
You’re paying for someone to yell at when an update breaks your workflow, and they have to fix it instead of you.
I see the point! Thanks
CrossOver am pretty sure was designed to be easy and way more compatible to run Windows apps/games.
