President Bush gets a lot of grief over the economic woes that have occurred under his watch, but now people can thank him for something spiffy: Free software. It comes courtesy of the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge.

In July, St. Paul software developer CodeWeavers came up with the gimmick to make its products available free for a day if any one of five positive (but seemingly unlikely at the time) things happened during Bush's last six months in office: gas drops to $2.79 a gallon, milk drops to $3.50 a gallon, U.S. jobs exceed 138 million, the Twin Cities median home price returns to $233,000 or Osama bin Laden is captured.

Bingo on No. 1.

When CodeWeavers CEO Jeremy White saw that gas was $2.79 a gallon during a recent fill-up, "I screamed, 'Woohoo!' Then I yelled, 'Oh, crap!' as I realized every American can now have my software for free -- kind of upsets my fourth-quarter revenue projections," he said.

So on Tuesday, all of CodeWeavers products, which allow Mac and Linux users to run Windows applications, can be downloaded for free -- instead of $40 each -- at the company's website, www.codeweavers.com.

 

 

 

Good stuff. Looking forward to getting Crossover Games.

 

lmfao

 

so how does the softwork? with that software can i use microsoft word?

 

You can use microsoft word anyway man...

 

sweet! now i can run all my vst synths on this mac!

 

that's cool - wish it was something I really wanted though
I honestly can't think of anything PC I would want to put on my mac
I have MS Office and that I believe will be the limit.

 

Suite, now my son can finally play his Sponge Bob game!!

 

gaynesss. the site is down

 

You can still download and get serial number.

 

site still down

 

I have a feeling this site's gonna be down pretty much most of the day haha. I will check from my iPhone throughout the day. Soon as I get home its download away!

 

......

 

Just requested the serial # for mac and downloading their programs.

 

Hopefully v7 is an improvement over v6. Was not impressed at all with v6.

 

it just crashes on my machine

 

I downloaded to my PC just in case I forgot to download it to my Apple tonight. Thanks for the reminder!

I haven't gotten my serial number though

 

Are you copying me?

if I recall, the site said you'd receive it in a day or two?

 

booooooo lol

 

I wish more companies would do things like this, this kinda reminds me of the jordan's furniture promotion where if the red sox won the world series, everybody's furniture purchases were free of charge.

 

The serial got e-mailed to me pretty quickly after I registered....

 

so we download it and when do we put the serial number in?

 

dB, did they send you your SN already? If not, then hold off until you get it before you try entering it in

 

I got mine. If you go to the site you get a nice video.

 

I got mine but will probably never use it.

 

Site is up.