So long, and thanks for all the Wine!

[Dan Kegel]

Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
average Visual Basic program!
So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
If anyone's interested, please let me know;
(I think the new start menu will be implemented in
a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
need apply.)
Cheers,
Dan

[John Smith]

April fools?

On 4/1/07, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
> no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
> an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
> Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
> average Visual Basic program!
> So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
> have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
> working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
> haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
> They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
> If anyone's interested, please let me know;
> (I think the new start menu will be implemented in
> a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
> need apply.)
> Cheers,
> Dan

[Martin Owens]

In all likelihood; personally I find just the results to be amusing
where wine developers discover just how daft the windows api really
is. that in it's self has entertainment value to push ever onwards.
> > so no C programmers need apply.

I'm a VB programmer of 5 years, I wouldn't take a job doing it for all
the money in the Bank of England. ;-)

[Jim White]

John Smith wrote:
> April fools?

With utter certainty.

For those who don't know Dan personally, it might not be completely 
obvious that the job description he gives (team lead of 50 guys doing 
C#/VBScript @ Micro$loth) is precisely his idea of working hell.  In 
contrast, his current gig with Google that pays him to spend some of his 
time mentoring folks doing Linux/C/Wine is probably close to his ideal.

Jim
> On 4/1/07, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> > Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
> > no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
> > an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
> > Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
> > average Visual Basic program!
> > So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
> > have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
> > working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
> > haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
> > They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
> > If anyone's interested, please let me know;
> > (I think the new start menu will be implemented in
> > a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
> > need apply.)
> > Cheers,
> > Dan

[EA Durbin]

I thought you were involved in the TiSP project?

http://www.google.com/tisp/
> From: "Dan Kegel" 
> To: "[e-mail]" 
> Subject: So long, and thanks for all the Wine!
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 21:20:56 -0700
>
> Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
> no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
> an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
> Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
> average Visual Basic program!
> So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
> have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
> working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
> haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
> They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
> If anyone's interested, please let me know;
> (I think the new start menu will be implemented in
> a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
> need apply.)
> Cheers,
> Dan

[Ben Hodgetts]

Although if it is an April fools he was a bit late...
"Delivery-date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:20:06 +0000"

Ben H.

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
> no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
> an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
> Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
> average Visual Basic program!
> So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
> have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
> working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
> haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
> They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
> If anyone's interested, please let me know;
> (I think the new start menu will be implemented in
> a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
> need apply.)
> Cheers,
> Dan

[Jim White]

Ben Hodgetts wrote:
> Although if it is an April fools he was a bit late...
> "Delivery-date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:20:06 +0000"

Not if you're in the right part of the world:

"Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 21:20:56 -0700"

Jim
> Ben H.
>
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
> > no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
> > an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
> > Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
> > average Visual Basic program!
> > So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
> > have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
> > working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
> > haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
> > They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
> > If anyone's interested, please let me know;
> > (I think the new start menu will be implemented in
> > a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
> > need apply.)
> > Cheers,
> > Dan

[Tom Spear]

Can someone confirm if he unsubscribed from the list?  I'm sure its an
April fools, considering that the time he sent it was eleven o clock
at night, central us time,  and sometime in the early morning in
england, but it would be nice to be sure..

Tom

On 4/2/07, Ben Hodgetts  wrote:
> Although if it is an April fools he was a bit late...
> "Delivery-date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:20:06 +0000"
>
> Ben H.
>
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Wine was a fine dream, but come on, there's
> > no way a bunch of volunteers could put together
> > an emulator for a real operating system like Windows.
> > Heck, after 14 years, Wine can't even run the
> > average Visual Basic program!
> > So I'm bowing to the inevitable, and
> > have accepted a job with a popular operating system vendor
> > working on fixing something called a "start menu"; I
> > haven't heard the details yet, but it sounds very complex.
> > They say I'll be leading a team of 50.
> > If anyone's interested, please let me know;
> > (I think the new start menu will be implemented in
> > a mix of C# and VBScript for efficiency, so no C programmers
> > need apply.)
> > Cheers,
> > Dan