I have never been a fan of the motivation for wine. While the work the people involved in the wine project have done is tremendous, it still perpetuates the cycle of software developers writing apps for Windows, only now they can have the excuse of " Oh, well because of wine, it'll get used in Linux also."
One of the more difficult challenges, yet perhaps more worthwhile ones is finding a neutral ground for application development. Writing programs that are OS independent. This would level the playing field between OS's incredibly and still allow software developers to market and sell programs that are of high quality and for use regardless of the OS.
There are a large number of the Linux using community which would pay for a boxed cd at Walmart or CompUSA or wherever for a program that is well known, works reliably and is usable without a glitch on the OS they are using.
In terms of being able to use older versions of applications that no one is going to want to recode for multi-OS compatibility, there is a usefulness in wine.
The true focus should always be on setting the stage for new development to run natively in Linux, not keep encouraging use another company's leftovers.
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Finally, it's time for Wine
Posted by: big bear on June 12, 2008 08:02 PMOne of the more difficult challenges, yet perhaps more worthwhile ones is finding a neutral ground for application development. Writing programs that are OS independent. This would level the playing field between OS's incredibly and still allow software developers to market and sell programs that are of high quality and for use regardless of the OS.
There are a large number of the Linux using community which would pay for a boxed cd at Walmart or CompUSA or wherever for a program that is well known, works reliably and is usable without a glitch on the OS they are using.
In terms of being able to use older versions of applications that no one is going to want to recode for multi-OS compatibility, there is a usefulness in wine.
The true focus should always be on setting the stage for new development to run natively in Linux, not keep encouraging use another company's leftovers.
Big Bear
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