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OSNews Interviews WINE's Alexandre Julliard

Posted by Hemos on from the much-development-happening dept.

Eugenia writes "OSNews talks with Alexandre Julliard, the WINE project leader and also CodeWeaver's coder, regarding the future of WINE, the obstacles of the development, the WINE commercialization and lots more. An interesting read overall."

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  1. Re:Obstacles by Eloquence · · Score: 3, Interesting

    DR-DOS would be a better example. And in Caldera v. Microsoft, the actual danger for projects like WINE became visible: "We are supposed to give the user the option of continuing after the warning; however, we should surely crash at some point shortly later..." -- David Cole, head of Windows development, e-mail from 1991 regarding the detection of DR-DOS when running Windows 3.1

  2. Excellent Project by 4of12 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't say enough good things about the potential for this project to bring open source operating systems to the public at large.

    Backwards compatibility to previous versions of (closed) Windows is the biggest obstacle most casual users have with migrating to Linux. All that shrink-wrapped software purchased over the past 15 years - it has to work.

    Sheesh, even MS has backwards compatibility as its biggest obstacle to getting users to upgrade to the "next" OS.

    WINE can make a serious upgrade happen.

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