If your business depends upon getting a Wine bug fixed, From my perspective, the only thing that depends upon getting a Wine bug
fixed, is making Wine a decent competitor to Windows on desktop in, say, 3 years (let's be optimistic).
including the one I work for) that can do this for you.
BTW, you might be able to clarify how it can happen that Crossover (derived from LGPL-ed WINE, if I understand it correctly) doesn't have one of these bugs, but WINE does? I used to think that LGPL requires availability of modified source, and therefore WINE developers should be able to 'backport' bugfixes from CrossOver to WINE, shouldn't they?
From: Mike McCormack mike@codeweavers.com To: John Smith devel8421@hotmail.com CC: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: Reality check Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:57:02 +0900
John Smith wrote:
THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN GETTING BUG FIXED IS TO GET SOMEBODY WORK ON IT.
If your business depends upon getting a Wine bug fixed, then you should pay somebody to work on the problem. There are several companies (including the one I work for) that can do this for you.
Mike
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