New subject: [Bug 58568] Wine is not as good as it used to be. Can't run old games we love. I'm told, as a 23 yr C programmer, this is all "won't fix" and to get the hell out of opensource that it's "our space now".

5 Aug 2025


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58568
Bug ID: 58568
           Summary: Wine is not as good as it used to be. Can't run old
                    games we love. I'm told, as a 23 yr C programmer, this
                    is all "won't fix" and to get the hell out of
                    opensource that it's "our space now".
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.12
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: chaosesqueteam@sogetthis.com
      Distribution: ---
Wine is not as good as it used to be. Can't run old games we love. I'm told, as
a 23 yr C programmer, this is all "won't fix" and to get the hell out of
opensource that it's "our space now".
Problems are just labled "WONT FIX", and hackers are not wanted here anymore.
"WONT FIX"
"WONT FIX HAHAHAHAHHA"
etc.
Free Sofware has been brigaded and taken over, and the class of people that
actually built it up (Hackers) has been thrown out.
Now it's broken here and there and everywhere in subtle ways.
Like WONT FIX HAHAHAHA 16 bit binaries being able to run.
The installers for all Maxis games are 16 bit, even if the binary is 32.
This "feature" is intentionally "wont fix" to break wine.
Just as the mis-features the linux kernel has been adding, enabling, etc (ie no
calling a 16 bit code from 64 bit binaries) is designed to make the Hacker OS
regress to a broken state that cannot run what it could just a few years ago.
(Examples from Linux: This includes things such as that default kernel option
being enabled , to other such things as deleting ReiserFS: the first journaling
file system and a Godsend back then. It MADE linux: from a toy to a server OS.
MP3.com saved millions of dollars when it was added, for instance; but also
slightly older things like rejecting PaX/Grsecurity and then years later not
doing anything when they violated the GPL)
Every by-line and slogan is twisted to socially block improvements
"Oh well, hun, WINE is not an EMULATOR, so WONT FIX!!!!" 
"but 16 bit used to work, and is essential"
"NO __HUN__ wine is not a space for hackers, BANNNED!"
Same on the LKML
Same on every "opensource" project now.
Our software ecosystem that we spent our lives programming; in whatever corner
of Free Software we were in: has been taken from us. Converted.
And the men who were the hackers; replaced.
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