I really can't understand why they don't cooperate with us in the Wine project instead.
That's exactly what I thought several weeks ago when I first heard of it.
Licensing issues might be the reason (I did not look at their license !).
They use the BSD license, unfortunately the one with the advertisment clause. However I don't imagine it will be a problem since there is very little if anything that they have implemented that we haven't implemented I long time ago already.
Additional problem is that they use C++. :-)
In short they have wasted a lot of effort for little or no gain.
Other than that I'm tired of YAW (Yet Another Windows, which is the name of yet another windows package, coincidentally ;-)
Indeed. I can understand people that start working with a project has a lot of ideas and the project leader rejects them and they grow tired and decide to do it themselves.
However for a project like Wine most things really can't be done that many ways since it must be compatible with Windows so this shouldn't really be a very large problem.
In this case perhaps they, being Japanse, felt uncomfortable with cooperating with english speaking people. I noticed that they have a Japanese only mailing list.
Anyway we could always create a wine-devel-jp or whatever if that was a problem.