Comment by Sammi
5 months ago
Clearly they don't want to come out and say that Wine is an "implementation of windows apis", because that would invite legal issues. But clearly this is what Wine really is for a large part. Some stuff are just shallow shims to Linux apis, while other stuff they need to make more of their own implementation of.
"WINE Is Not an Emulator" has always said something exactly like that. It hasn't exactly been a "secret" that Wine is an implementation of Windows APIs (and not an emulator/translator).