Tom Wickline wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:14:39 -0800, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
This marks a change in IBMs policy towards Wine, or perhaps signals a management oversight. While normally it seems that they have an active policy of censoring any references to Wine and completely denying its existence, here they are offering prizes for porting it to PPC.
I don't agree with this statement and here is why:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-wine/index.html http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-toppage/index.html http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc10.html http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-emulat.html
Tom,
That first is an article that went up, and then was taken down. The authors were mystified as to why it was ordered removed.
It later 'reappeared', but as you can see, it's broken in appeareance, which suggests that it went back up by accident, rather than by intention.
Further, if you look at their 'desktop migration' redbook, 268 pages of advice on how to migrate from Windows to Linux, you'll see that it mentions Wine exactly once, in passing, and somewhat derogatorily. It then goes on to spend 3 paragraphs on Citrix. Further, if you probe the author on this, he'll respond cryptically that he's happy to take input on the subject, but he has certain restrictions on changes he can make to the Red Book. And since many of the comments on Slashdot when this went up were along the lines of "Huh? Why don't they mention Wine", I don't think I just have a biased view of the Red Book.
So I don't think Scott's statement is untrue.
Now, with that said, I know of many, many good folks at IBM that are big supporters of Wine, and with any organization like IBM it's hard to make a blanket statement.
Cheers,
Jeremy