On 1/9/09, Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
Sure they carry the Wine announcements, and occasionally mention an article about Wine in the Press section. But real articles about Wine? Nope. One almost gets the feeling that they don't like Wine for some reason...
There was a full lead-in article in the Development section right when Wine hit the original Beta release - I wrote that.
Jonathan Corbett really doesn't seem to have a strong opinion regarding Wine. Or, at least if he has a personal opinion he seems able to set it aside for the sake of whatever goes into LWN. I've exchanged a few emails with him at different times never got the feeling he didn't like Wine. It just doesn't seem to be something he uses to solve any problems he might have.
LWN is definitely receptive to any articles. Things that come to mind would be an article describing Wine being used to get a specific Windows program to run. For example, how you could use Wine to make iTunes run (not sure if iTunes is actually working these days.) Another idea might be someone describing a backend development process used to make Wine do something neat. Like a technical description of what CodeWeavers did to get Chrome to run, or what Google has done to make the new version of Picasa work, etc.
As compensation, they'll give a subscription to LWN for a year. That's what I got as compensation because I wasn't looking for $$$ and it was something they could give away without costing any $$$.
-Brian