http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9787
--- Comment #306 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2008-11-23 17:06:34 --- (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.
It'll be fixed at some point, surely. But Alexandre is busy fixing other things, and it's not on his todo list. Anywho, Bugzilla isn't the place for discussing these things. The best course of action would be to ask Alexandre again what is wrong with the wineserver code, the e-mail could've gotten lost in the shuffle.