and if it does happen, will we find enough people to do what XFree86 has been doing for X11? Maybe, and maybe not. When I hear people like Patrik saying that it's OK for parts of Wine to become proprietary because we can't do everything anyway, I'm worried.
If wine was even CLOSE to being complete, I would agree with you.
But you cannot change the license once it is mostly complete; by then it will be too late.
Why would you want to change the license when it is mostly complete?
There will be very little reason for companies to enter the market at that time and why try to make it difficult for the few that might.
Patrik Stridvall ps@leissner.se writes:
There will be very little reason for companies to enter the market at that time and why try to make it difficult for the few that might.
On the contrary, there will be a lot more reasons. The main market is not in developing Wine; frankly there isn't that much money to be made on that. The main market is in using Wine to make money on applications, and the more complete Wine gets the easier this will be. But if Wine never gets complete because some parts are held proprietary by other companies, it won't be possible to enter that market.
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