On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 11:39, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
As for others who tries to install Office 2000 with Wine CVS - nice try, but you'll need to do tons of tricks in order to install it. running: wine setup.exe won't do the trick. If you want to run Office 2000, then please don't behave cheaply - go pay the $50 to Codeweavers for their excellent product - they give all their modifications back and your money supports them in order to continue developing Wine..
cheaply? Im sure this is an OOS Project, are we all leaches upon the linux community?...I feel a little cheap since I downloaded a couple of Debain ISO's without paying for them. We use Wine to test out Windows Apps in Wine...so its no great surprise Office 2000 has become an issue.
This is the same issue for Transgaming's WineX - want to run full game? then subscribe and support them please..
And if you want to flame me - my email is right here - fire away.
Scenerio: What *If* I (or someone else) had a few sane bug fixes, that allowed Office 2000 to work? What would happen?, "Umm sorry we cant commit this....because we feel you're too cheap to buy Codeweavers great product!"
Fixing Issues such as getting Office 2000 to work should be in the same catagory as fixing support for any other App using wine. And it *shouldnt* be delyed just because it "Office 2000". Im Getting the feeling the codeweavers is failing to commit any code that would promote any *decent* workable progress of Office 2000 using Wine CVS.
Those are my thoughts anyway.. -mdew