New subject: 0.9.17 and other issues

11 Jul 2006


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the goal is to implement the win32 APIs on top of unix. this does
neither exclude the gamers nor the "appers".
No that wasn't my idea. But remember the mission: Bring the people to Linux!  It's just a matter of priorization. What brings more people to linux?  You have right: The business apps. So what's more important?
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so why not support that efford by donating some of your time or money
(e.g. your employers) to fix the problems? recently there where the
auditions for the summer of code - why not advocate then to make things
better? why not try crossover's wine?
Sorry, I can just program Java but no C nor C++. And my salery is just enough to life. But as soon crossover supports  my core required business apps I will surely buy one and will strongly recommend my circly of friends to do the same. Its also my opinion to support crossover for their work. But does it makes sense to buy a software which would currently be usesless for me?
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you have many options - but instead you have chosen to whine to a list
of developers that spend their free time to improve the things they have
problems with; what do you think this will help?
My most other freetime goes also into opensource projects or projects which promotes opensource (such as the yearly linux installation parties). It wasn't my intent to "whine" on the list but sometimes it required to give the people a soft kick in ass.
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Von: Christoph Frick frick@sc-networks.de
An: Roland Kaeser roli8200@yahoo.de
CC:  wine-devel@winehq.org
Gesendet: Dienstag, den 11. Juli 2006, 13:11:29 Uhr
Betreff: Re: 0.9.17 and other issues
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:02:31AM +0000, Roland Kaeser wrote:
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I know thats cool developing gaming features but THAT CANNOT BE THE
GOAL!!!!!
the goal is to implement the win32 APIs on top of unix. this does
neither exclude the gamers nor the "appers".
In the offices I support  as admin/sys engineer, we are all waiting
for wine becomes stable enough to get the business apps running to
switch to linux completely.
so why not support that efford by donating some of your time or money
(e.g. your employers) to fix the problems? recently there where the
auditions for the summer of code - why not advocate then to make things
better? why not try crossover's wine?
you  have many options - but instead you have chosen to whine to a list
of developers that spend their free time to improve the things they have
problems with; what do you think this will help?
But on every release I read some things about DirectX, Gaming Support
etc.  Whould it not be better just to fix the existing bugs before
developping new ones? All the people I know WANT TO RUN THEIR BUSINESS
APPS ON LINUX. Nobody wants run games.
you state yourself, that lots of features (that are announce-worthy) are
for games and you think no one cares for games? do you think they are
done for the pure fun of it? have you actually checked the ChangeLog of
the current release? do you think all this changes in ole, msxml, &c.
dlls are done for the pure fun of it? if so - why not join the fun?
-- 
cu

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