Well, I mean why did Wine developers need to bother about some Sun lawyers being scared calling their tools emulators? I don't really get that part. For all intents of the dictionary meaning, I see no issue with calling Wine an emulator. No one claimed it emulates everything from Windows. It does emulate what it provides, quite clearly.

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You didn't really answer the question focusing on the wrong part. The main point is - why even bother with explicit negative phrasing "not an emulator"? How sudden it was is not really relevant to that.

Saying it was just a joke kind of doesn't explain the motivation behind it if it was put into the official name of the project. Also, Wine developers aren't Sun, so why would they care about what Sun lawyers were worried about?

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Quoting: F.UltraI don't see him as an authority on this matter at all, he was simply a nice guy who decided to write a FAQ back in 1995 to help the project.

Then why a sudden need to emphasize "not an emulator" at one point? Today Wine kind of stopped doing it, which is a good thing.

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Quoting: F.UltraWine "never" called it self an emulator (except in some parts of the old FAQ).

If the FAQ references it, it clearly was meant to be called an emulator.

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I recommend you to move along together with those who didn't like Wine being called an emulator. I see no point in any of your arguments above. I called Wine an emulator and will continue calling it so.

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Good, then what are you even arguing about? If discussion doesn't work for you, don't engage in discussion posting flame comments that are simply false :)

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I've been talking about those who made the project change its description. Seriously not interested in wasting time on this anymore.

Emulation can mean emulating software. Those who don't like this or don't get it can move along. Arguing with them is a complete waste of time.

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Quoting: EikeYou've got the whole thread at your disposal to cite all those. Nobody here was defining it this way,

And I'm not talking about people here, but about those who were originally annoyed at Wine calling itself an emulator, causing it to be rebranded as "not an emulator". So not sure what your point is exactly. None of these people are here I presume.

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Quoting: EikeNobody said anything about hardware except you.

Not true. All those who got hung up on "Wine is not an emulator" were busy defining emulator as something that has to emulate CPU architecture and such. While the meaning of the word emulate never had to be limited to what they wanted.

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I don't see a discussion in this really and any issue with using a broad meaning of emulates. No one said emulates only can refer to hardware, except for some who decided to limit the meaning for some weird reason.

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