He liked 'whine' but felt it was too long.Īs far as I can tell, nothing ever came of that 1993 post.
His original thought when he started the project was to name it 'winemu', but didn't like that and shortened it to 'wine', which led him to 'whine' and 'whinny'. That suggestion was by Bob Amstadt in a post where he also explained how the name 'wine' came about. The first suggestion for the 'Wine Is Not an Emulator' language was made in 1993, over concern that 'Windows Emulator' might run into trademark problems with Microsoft.
The change was largely due to essentially marketing. It originally was officially called an emulator. The Wine is not an emulator thing has an interesting history. Wine is a great project, and truly 'is not an emulator'.
