IBM does very well know the existents of Wine (they even acknowledged that by themselves lately), but may very well not support it, because of inter-relation with MS. As of now (just a guess), they don't want to get into more hot water right now....
Would it be to the advantage of Microsoft to have Wine succeed? They have given Apple much support and at every class for the past several years the instructors have had a copy of Linux on every machine. A very good case can be made for Microsoft supporting Wine especially since the RH secure kernel came via NSA and may very well become a DOD standard. Perhaps Wine should formally contact Microsoft.
If they would have wanted some contact, that would have done it long time ago....More than that, if they'd like to have Windows API support on Linux, they could have done it (and still could do) much easier, than it's done now at Wine. (Like they did with Frontpage for Apache).
But it could be also a revenue for MS to produce such a API-for-Linux and as current messages get out from Redmond, with some reconciliation with the Open Source community, chances may be for some interest. Mmmhh, there is Bill Hilf and Martin Taylor which are the Linux guys at MS....
But contacting MS should be made only after a decision (voting) of this list.....
gslink wrote:
IBM does very well know the existents of Wine (they even acknowledged that by themselves lately), but may very well not support it, because of inter-relation with MS. As of now (just a guess), they don't want to get into more hot water right now....
Would it be to the advantage of Microsoft to have Wine succeed? They have given Apple much support and at every class for the past several years the instructors have had a copy of Linux on every machine. A very good case can be made for Microsoft supporting Wine especially since the RH secure kernel came via NSA and may very well become a DOD standard. Perhaps Wine should formally contact Microsoft.
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If they would have wanted some contact, that would have done it long time ago....More than that, if they'd like to have Windows API support on Linux, they could have done it (and still could do) much easier, than it's done now at Wine. (Like they did with Frontpage for Apache).
But it could be also a revenue for MS to produce such a API-for-Linux and as current messages get out from Redmond, with some reconciliation with the Open Source community, chances may be for some interest. Mmmhh, there is Bill Hilf and Martin Taylor which are the Linux guys at MS....
But contacting MS should be made only after a decision (voting) of this list.....
gslink wrote:
IBM does very well know the existents of Wine (they even acknowledged that by themselves lately), but may very well not support it, because of inter-relation with MS. As of now (just a guess), they don't want to get into more hot water right now....
Would it be to the advantage of Microsoft to have Wine succeed? They have given Apple much support and at every class for the past several years the instructors have had a copy of Linux on every machine. A very good case can be made for Microsoft supporting Wine especially since the RH secure kernel came via NSA and may very well become a DOD standard. Perhaps Wine should formally contact Microsoft.
Now we are getting all the ideas on the table. I agree.
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