On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 05:34 AM, wine-devel-request@winehq.org wrote:
Message: 5 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:26:34 -0400 From: Paul Davis paul@linuxaudiosystems.com To: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: symbol hiding
for this reason, i personally wouldn't feel comfortable asking in a public forum how to go about doing this. your mileage may and probably does vary, of course.
My original question generated this new thread, which in turn became very technical. But, I think that Paul's original posting was more of a philosophical or maybe even moral nature.
I'm not sure if there is a FAQ about the etiquette on this group, the kind of questions that can be asked, and the kind that cannot be asked. I have nothing to hide. Our company sells a piece a hardware that has an x86 mother board inside and runs Linux and wine. It is a consumer appliance similar to TiVo in the sense that it does not look like a computer and the customer does not have access to the Linux shell, nor can he or she run other applications. On top Linux we have a proprietary application that runs under wine (wine -- proprietary-application.exe.so). Our application is not open source.
If questions relating to a commercial non open source product that uses wine heavily are not welcome on this list, I apologize and I will never ask these kinds of questions again.
Dan Timis Muse Research, Inc.