The Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge was issued a few months back. The goals set by Jeremy White, President and CEO of CodeWeavers, laid out some serious challenges to President George Bush. Considering all the pressures of this years elections for some, this publicity stunt is liable to make you forget to even vote, but luckily that's not the case since it's on the Tuesday before November 4th - so there is no excuse for you to not vote next week.

 

The challenge was that CodeWeavers promised to give away its software for a 24 hour period to all Americans if, and only if, President Bush reached one of the goals set out for him to achieve. The goals were: Reduce the price of gas, reduce the price of food, create more jobs, rejuvenate the housing market, and bring Osama Bin-Laden to justice.

Luckily for us "W", which in this case stands for "Winner," has reached one of those goals. The average price of gas has fallen at, or below, $2.79 in the Twin Cities. So CEO Jeremy White is making good on his challenge. Starting immediately, visitors to the company's site will receive a code using this link entitling them to one free copy of CrossOver Pro software (includes CrossOver Games), complete with licensed support for Linux or the Mac. You get to choose. We of course, chose "Mac."

CrossOver is another option for Mac (versus Parallels, Fusion or Bootcamp) and Linux users that allows you to run Windows applications and games on either of these platforms. It's basically a commercial version of the open-source Windows compatibility layer called Wine. A Windows API is provided by Wine running over Mac OS X or Linux. CrossOver is offered in three different versions: CrossOver Mac, CrossOver Games, and CrossOver Linux.  

CodeWeavers site is being hammered pretty hard right now. Please be patient.