Re: Why Wine is like playing the guitar

[Roland]

At 01:14 AM 3/20/02 -0800, Steven Edwards wrote:
> > "this software is
> > designed to run the following:
> >       MS Word
> >       Lotus Notes
> >       Quicken"
>
> You really have two tasks at hand.
> 1. Running some windows apps
> 2. Moving People off of Windows Apps

I don't see number 2 as a task. Our goal is to just implement task 1. Task 
2 has nothing to do with WINE primarily. There are some Windows Apps that 
have no Linux equivalent, think of all the games...
> 1. Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.)
> 2. Internet Explorer.
> 3. AOL
> 4. TuboTax
> 5. Quicken/QuickBooks
> 6. Lotus Notes
> 7. All of the P2P software
> 8. Juno
> 9. Act
> 10. The Palm Desktop

Plus tons of games

Roland