Are there any commercial profits from Wine?

Question

linux

I didn’t think about it before, but why do people write Wine or try to port language compilers (The same C lattice) to Linux? This is the most precise definition of the word crutch. And having done such a great job for what? Just for fun? Have you ever seen or heard stories of a company using Wine for something? Not counting the very internal tests on the likeness of running wine as a kind of virtual machine (I saw a post like this about 2 years ago, people ran Windows malware under Linux using it). More mundane things.

Answer 1

Have you ever seen or heard stories of a company using Wine for something?

Many times.
It used to be ubiquitous, now virtualization is easier to use.
It's just that the product is morally obsolete, and has become unnecessary and unpopular. At one time it was a necessary and demanded software.

Answer 2

I heard that there is an office that used to sell "wine for 1C". It was back in the days of 1C 7.7 and then 1Ska without dancing with a tambourine under wine did not start. The profit in this case is clear - you can pay for 1C, but do without Windows. How it is now is not known.

Answer 3

Have you ever seen or heard stories of a company using Wine for something?

I see it every day :) When I run the Mikrotik configurator :) Or some other free stuff. Wine is some kind of unknown project that is trying to become "windows without windows", but is still not able to run even ten-year-old games. Although a variety of small junk they can run.
Now virtualization has already reached the point where you can safely keep two simultaneously working machines on one piece of iron - if there are two vidyuhi in it, of course

Answer 4

the most beautiful example, no, I’ll even say two examples, these are:
1. Teamviewer under Linux (works through wine ;)
2. Dr * Web Live iso, with which I often searched for any garbage on the win-machines of frightened users, also worked for a long time through wine, and the OS (attention!) was gentoo for a long time (now it's a native client and Ubuntu)
Well, in addition, I know people who left Win for Lin' after ransomware, but run ms office 2003 under wine. And it works great.