Hi Everyone,
I'm currently working on a thesis investigating how Open Source is affected by the influence of money and the interests of commercial companies. As the WINE efforts is the foundation of companies such as Codeweavers, Transgaming and Lindows, it is interesting to study how their entrance to the scene have affected the community.
The thesis as well as research papers surrounding it will be released under the GNU Free Documentation License and as soon as the first drafts are available they will be published so that the community may comment upon it.
In order to improve the research, it would be great if you guys could spend a few minutes on this one. I have included below a list of the most active persons on this mailinglist during the year 2002. I have tried to establish their employer as far as e-mail adresses and google could help me out, but there are lots of unknowns, and probably some errors too. So please, send me patches.
Also, if you belive that there are others who should be on this list, I've only got one person from Transgaming so far, don't they contribute or are they simply silent on the mailinglist?
If there are someone out there who would be willing to answer some more detailed questions, such as how long they've been doing Open Source development as a source of income and how they think it have affected them and their efforts, please drop me a line. I'd be forever greatful.
The hall of fame: Dimitrie O. Paun,Unknown / Self-financed Alexandre Julliard,Codeweavers Francois Gouget,Codeweavers Eric Pouech,Unknown / Self-financed Andreas Mohr,Codeweavers Sylvain Petreolle,Unknown / Self-financed Andriy Palamarchuk,Unknown / Self-financed Steven Edwards,Unknown / Self-financed Martin Wilck,Unknown / Self-financed Patrik Stridvall,Unknown / Self-financed Uwe Bonnes,Unknown / Self-financed Dmitry Timoshkov,Codeweavers Greg Turner,Unknown / Self-financed Shachar Shemesh,Unknown / Self-financed Dustin Navea,Unknown / Self-financed Tony Lambregts,Unknown / Self-financed Ove Kaaven,Transgaming Bill Medland,ACCPAC Michael Cardenas,Lindows Lionel Ulmer,Unknown / Self-financed Duane Clark,Unknown / Self-financed Vincent Beron,Unknown / Self-financed Marcus Meissner,SUSE Brett Glass,Unknown / Self-financed Lawson Whitney,Unknown / Self-financed Dan Kegel,Unknown / Self-financed Michael Stefaniuc,RedHat
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Stefan Görling wrote:
In order to improve the research, it would be great if you guys could spend a few minutes on this one. I have included below a list of the most active persons on this mailinglist during the year 2002. I have tried to establish their employer as far as e-mail adresses and google could help me out, but there are lots of unknowns, and probably some errors too. So please, send me patches.
It's not clear whether you're only interested in Wine-related employers here, or any employer. For example, all of Martin Wilck's mails prominently display "Fujitsu Siemens", which would be hard to miss, but still isn't recorded in your list, yet Bill Medland is listed as "ACCPAC", so it's a little confusing.
Also, if you belive that there are others who should be on this list, I've only got one person from Transgaming so far, don't they contribute or are they simply silent on the mailinglist?
Well, I'm pretty sure a few other TransGaming employees (like Gavriel State, David Hammerton, Peter Hunnisett) *have* been seen on the list, but probably only occasionally, maybe only a few postings in all of 2002. For the most part, issues with Wine (the free version) are my responsibility at TransGaming, so the others aren't seen much here. (I suppose they might still be interested in answering questions, though, if you want to ask them.)
Andreas Mohr,Codeweavers
Maybe Andreas can speak for himself, but just in case he doesn't: he's not at CodeWeavers. (His only affiliation was an internship a long time ago, if I remember right.)
Thank you for your comments,
It's not clear whether you're only interested in Wine-related employers here, or any employer. For example, all of Martin Wilck's mails prominently display "Fujitsu Siemens", which would be hard to miss, but still isn't recorded in your list, yet Bill Medland is listed as "ACCPAC", so it's a little confusing.
Sorry for confusing you, I am interested in obtaining information about any employer, provided that they allow you (directly or simply by ignorance) to hack Wine during working time. When someone is sending mails from a Wine-related company, it's quite obvious that this is the case. But when the mail comes from a company, not directly affiliated with Wine, it might only be that the person is using his company mailbox. As for Martin Wilck, there were a lot of comments during the License-change debate that "This is not the view of my employer", so I came to the conclution that he probably only used the mailbox. He corrected me on this, and I am therefore grateful.
Also, if you belive that there are others who should be on this list, I've only got one person from Transgaming so far, don't they contribute or are they simply silent on the mailinglist?
Well, I'm pretty sure a few other TransGaming employees (like Gavriel State, David Hammerton, Peter Hunnisett) *have* been seen on the list, but probably only occasionally, maybe only a few postings in all of 2002. For the most part, issues with Wine (the free version) are my responsibility at TransGaming, so the others aren't seen much here. (I suppose they might still be interested in answering questions, though, if you want to ask them.)
Andreas Mohr,Codeweavers
Maybe Andreas can speak for himself, but just in case he doesn't: he's not at CodeWeavers. (His only affiliation was an internship a long time ago, if I remember right.)
Thanks, Andreas was another one of my uncertainties, in some Weekly list he was affiliated with CodeWeavers, and it sounded probable that someone that active should be paid in a project where many are.
Best Regards,
Stefan Görling
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:29:01PM +0100, Stefan Görling wrote:
If there are someone out there who would be willing to answer some more detailed questions, such as how long they've been doing Open Source development as a source of income and how they think it have affected them and their efforts, please drop me a line. I'd be forever greatful.
The hall of fame: Dimitrie O. Paun,Unknown / Self-financed Alexandre Julliard,Codeweavers Francois Gouget,Codeweavers Eric Pouech,Unknown / Self-financed Andreas Mohr,Codeweavers Sylvain Petreolle,Unknown / Self-financed Andriy Palamarchuk,Unknown / Self-financed Steven Edwards,Unknown / Self-financed Martin Wilck,Unknown / Self-financed Patrik Stridvall,Unknown / Self-financed Uwe Bonnes,Unknown / Self-financed Dmitry Timoshkov,Codeweavers Greg Turner,Unknown / Self-financed Shachar Shemesh,Unknown / Self-financed Dustin Navea,Unknown / Self-financed Tony Lambregts,Unknown / Self-financed Ove Kaaven,Transgaming Bill Medland,ACCPAC Michael Cardenas,Lindows Lionel Ulmer,Unknown / Self-financed Duane Clark,Unknown / Self-financed Vincent Beron,Unknown / Self-financed Marcus Meissner,SUSE Brett Glass,Unknown / Self-financed Lawson Whitney,Unknown / Self-financed Dan Kegel,Unknown / Self-financed Michael Stefaniuc,RedHat
Wrong, my work on Wine is pure hobby and not financed by Red Hat! I'm using the Red Hat mail account only because I'm lazyi: 3 years ago i've thought i could use Wine to run the phone switch configuration program at work, that's why i subscribed to wine-devel. And when i started to work on Wine I already was subcribed to wine-devel with my @redhat.de address and continued to use it.
bye michael
Stefan Görling wrote:
Shachar Shemesh,Unknown / Self-financed
I have been doing Wine on my spare time while being employed by Check Point, but I'm quitting there these days and turning into a freelance advisor (<shamelss_plug>If you know anyone looking to hire one in, please feel free to give them my email address</shamelss_plug>). No company sponsored resources were used.
Shachar
On January 6, 2003 03:29 am, Stefan Görling wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm currently working on a thesis investigating how Open Source is affected by the influence of money and the interests of commercial companies. As the WINE efforts is the foundation of companies such as Codeweavers, Transgaming and Lindows, it is interesting to study how their entrance to the scene have affected the community.
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Bill Medland,ACCPAC
Hi Stefan
For preference can you make sure you use the full company name (ACCPAC International, Inc.) in the final thing.
My work on Wine is part of my employment at ACCPAC. Basically we have an accounting software suite that we want people to be able to run under Linux. Currently the most cost-effective way for us to do that is to do our bit to ensure that Wine handles the Windows compatibility that we require.
I find that I don't have the personal time to work on wine that others do; I am somewhat in awe of those that do.
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