6 Feb
2014
6 Feb
'14
10:34 a.m.
On 6 February 2014 10:29, Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
That would be true if Wine was universally viewed as important. However there is a sentiment among free software radicals that because Wine makes it possible to run Windows applications (which are viewed as 100% non open-source), it's bad for Linux, open-source software, etc. So this title just confirms that sentiment and is thus not necessarily provocative (except on a Wine mailing list).
That was perhaps true at some point, but I have the impression that these days the sentiment is more that "Valve and Icculus are going to fix Linux gaming, nobody uses Wine for anything else anyway, and Free Software is just this thing that makes it harder for them to do so."