Re: Wine developer frustration (was Re: ntdll: Improve stub of NtQueryEaFile.)

[Theodore Dubois]

I originally sent this email to Jeremy, but forgot to CC the mailing list.

~Theodore

On Jun 16, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Theodore Dubois <tblodt(a)icloud.com> wrote:
> > I'm obviously very sad that you perceive us as evil. Do you mind me
> > asking where you got that feeling from? If there is an information
> > source that is revealing all of our evil secrets, I'd like to know about
> > it. <grin>
>
> I thought you were evil because I didn't realize that all your hacks are actually already public. (And those <evil grin>s.) I'm sorry.
> > All of our Wine code, including our hacks, is publicly released, here:
> > https://www.codeweavers.com/products/faq/source/
>
> I had seen that source page, but I didn't realize it contained all the hacks. I thought it was just the main Wine source code.
> > Um, nearly all of the work that we do on CrossOver is done by sending
> > public emails to this mailing list. How is that not open? Or perhaps I
> > should ask - what gave you the impression that we did not develop openly?
>
> I thought that because you were evil, you must have some non-public mailing list. I guess I was wrong.
>
> Well, now I don't feel CodeWeavers is evil anymore. You are doing some awesome work on Wine. Without it, Wine would not have gotten to the point where it could run Crysis.
>
> ~Theodore