Friday, June 23, 2006, 9:51:28 AM, Kuba Ober wrote:
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:24, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 11:41:32 AM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:27:28PM +0200, Kai Blin wrote:
I wouldn't necessarily judge the whole list by just two negative reactions. It's interesting to see that with my wine experience there might be jobs out there working on something similar. (Not that I'm interested right now, I'm still at university...)
I'm sure you're aware that in every open source project, there's people who oppose commercial software development for philosophical reasons.
"proprietary" please, not "commercial". HUGE difference.
I was talking more about nature of the job. I'm sure that lots of Wine code can "leak" into commercial product and wise versa.
What's worse is that it already DID happen, ane the party involved didn't think much of it (remember Poject David?) But this has little to do with the matter at hand.
I doubt that Thinstall would really want to do anything illegal -- this woul,d ruin their reputation, and would likely expose them to a copyright lawsuit(s). We can only level accusations after they do wrong. Why should we a priori think of them as guilty?
I think that while Vitaliy has some firm moral (and otherwise) viewpoints, the Thinstall bashing of his was a bit much.
C'mon, they just politely asked if anyone is interested in a job. What's wrong with that? If I were looking for winapi hackers, I'd ask here myself. Jeez.
I'm sorry that my intentions were misinterpreted because of the bad choice of words on my part.
I didn't want to sound that negative. What I wanted to say, is that the nature of the Wine (windows internals) and Thinstall (internal knowledge of windows) are some what close. So it's kind of a thin line that I'm sure neither side wants to cross.
As for the job offers - I wish you good luck finding the right person for the job. And for a Wine hacker to finally be able to pay his/hers bills. IMHO the project's developer's mailing list is not the right place to send such offers.
PS: Again this is all IMHO and in no way should represent opinions of anyone else.
Vitaliy.