with all the discussion going on in the press about what to do with Microsoft to remove their Monopoly power or at least see to it that they don't abuse their power, how to folks here feel about forcing them to release all their API's?
I'm not a programmer myself, but it's my understanding that not having access to the API's is what makes wine such a challenge. If this is the case, would getting access to the MS API's allow Wine to be completed? I feel that a MS breakup wouldn't have done much to change things because they can still give information only to whom they choose, leaving MS to decide who can play and who can't. Having other ways to run the application base of windows software would remove the need to run windows itself, and in my mind, this is the easiest way to remove monopoly power of MS.
What do you folks, the Wine developers, think should be done to MS?
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Scott Bradford