http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9787
--- Comment #308 from Lukáš Krejza gryffus@hkfree.org 2008-11-24 03:36:14 --- (In reply to comment #305)
(In reply to comment #304)
It might be even more expensive (say, $10K or $15K), but $5K would at least get Codeweavers' attention. I don't think any bug has ever scraped $5K together though, so it's kind of a long shot.
While Alexandre's development time surely deserves a high hourly rate, gathering this amount of money doesn't seem feasible. Perhaps this is just a bug that will never be fixed due to the combined lack of affected users (92 users out of all the wine users) and the apparent time and effort required to architect an acceptable fix.
I cannot agree with you... If this bug has 92 votes, it in any case doesnt mean, that it affects only 92 users... Do you really think that every linux W3 player (there are hundred thousands or even more of them out there) has voted for this? And this affects ALL of them... Creating LAN and Battle.net games is almost essential for playing... :-) Noone wants to create game for u for 1v1match and wait there until you finish (about 20min +-)... Can you imagine that on local tournamenst, or even WCG (something as world game olypics) tournaments can be linux players? Or sponzored PCs with linux installed? No there cant and do u know why? Because of lacking AcceptEX... I think that importance of this bug has been greatly underestimated... Importance not for wine itself, nor its developers, but importance for users.... And wine is for users isnt it?
My post isn't intended to offend anyone i'm just telling my view on this and i think every W3 player will agree with me.
Im sorry but i cannot help fix this, since i dont know anything of wineserver and i only develop in C# :-(
Best regards Gryffus