"Bang Jun-Young" junyoung@mogua.com wrote in message news:20020108023339.A5460@krishna...
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:06:11AM -0800, Bill Medland wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath; why would they contribute the valuable stuff back?
What do you think of people that have contributed their invaluable time/money/energy/passion/etc to Wine for last years? :P
Sorry you took offence.
I am in awe of what the team have achieved since the early days and impressed at how rapidly things appear to be moving at present. I believe in what Wine is doing, which is part of the reason why I am one of the people working on it (although I don't do all that much). I also get an impression that much of the development is based on altruism rather than financial concerns (which I guess is your point).
Wine is now getting to quite an advanced state and so begins to look attractive to a lot of people.
We have just finished a major discussion of the license and are basically going to leave it as it stands; at least that's my understanding. (And I agree with that)
Gavriel has been quite up-front about what TransGaming are doing, in a business sense. Basically when the company reaches the equivalent of about $1million a year they can consider that they are recouping their investment and can feel comfortable passing back significant code. This implies to me a sense of honesty tinged with realistic business sense.
Lindows, to the best of my knowledge, have made no such business committment to Wine; they agree to abide by all licenses but, as we have just discussed, the license does not require them to publish their source code. Considering their marketing etc. and their target market.I expect them to hang onto the work they have done for quite a while before feeding it back to the Wine tree. Maybe I am wrong (and I hope I am) but what we have to recognise is that Wine is now getting to the stage at which big business gets interested.
Bill
NB These are my own personal views..