--- Gregory Hicks ghicks@ihug.com.au wrote:
Hi All,
I have been a silent observer on here for some time. (about 2 years or so).
In the course of this time it has occurred to me that you are developing WINE with the aim of allowing all M$ platform programs to run on the _much_ more stable Linux platform.
In light of some recent news here in Australia, (this link is to the article Alston opens agencies to linux )
I am proposing that wine take to two distinct streams: 1) Office Stream, which provides for the Office and business tool platform.
2) Games Stream, which offers the gaming community the place to play their games.The purpose of this proposal is to bring some ease in your developments and provide the right platform for the end user. Since Linux so easily boots alternative kernels, this would mean that the machines could be business and games, just not at the same time.
Why? MS developed NT for business use and 95/98 for games. Even they couldn't make one platform for all and still can't.
Not to start a flame war, right? ;)
Wasnt Win2k Pro designed for just that purpose, games _and_ business? And besides, the 2 streams already exist.
http://www.codeweavers.com for Business and http://www.transgaming.com for Games
http://www.winehq.com is the middle ground for everyone to work from and send back to so if you want 2 in 1 without having to have 2 separate copies of wine, then you can.
-Dustin
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