Editing CrossOver (software) (section)

==Software giveaway==
On October 28, 2008 as the result of the [[CodeWeavers#Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge|Lame Duck Challenge]], [[Codeweavers]] gave all of their products away. Codeweavers' main page was temporarily replaced due to the day's unusually high traffic.<ref>{{cite web |first=Steven J. |last=Vaughan-Nichols |url=http://blogs.computerworld.com/free_as_in_beer_codeweavers_crossover_linux_and_mac |title=Free (as in beer) CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux and Mac |publisher=Computerworld Blogs |date=October 28, 2008 |accessdate=2009-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224031641/http://blogs.computerworld.com/free_as_in_beer_codeweavers_crossover_linux_and_mac |archive-date=December 24, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to CodeWeavers at least 750,000 product registrations were given away during October 28.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080806050319/http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/blog/ 2008.10.28 We Came! We Saw! We Burned to the Waterline!]</ref>

On October 31, 2012, CodeWeavers had a second software giveaway, this one entitled "Flock the Vote".<ref>{{cite web|last=Kruchowski|first=Anna|title=CodeWeavers software free for download for 24 hours on October 31, 2012|url=https://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20121029/|work=CodeWeavers blog|accessdate=29 October 2012}}</ref> CodeWeavers promised to have such a giveaway if 100,000 American voters would promise to vote on election day, in a [[Nonpartisanism|nonpartisan]] bid to encourage [[activism]]. More than 100,000 people pledged, so CodeWeavers allowed any person in the world to download and register a copy of CrossOver Linux or CrossOver Mac.