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Wired Talks Wine

Posted by Hemos on from the run-it-better-faster dept.

matroid writes "Wired reports that the upcoming WINE version 1.0 may be just what Linux needs to get users to migrate from Windows to Linux."

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  1. Linux Competitive Manager? by mattrope · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Steve Wasko, Microsoft's Linux Competitive Manager, said that Microsoft is not very concerned about any competitive threat from WINE ... or Linux."

    If they're not concerned about any competitive threat from Linux, then why do they have a position called "Linux Competitive Manager?"

  2. Competetive Manager? by cgleba · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Steve Wasko, Microsoft's Linux Competitive Manager, said that Microsoft is not very concerned about any competitive threat from WINE ... or Linux."

    MS has a Linux competitive manager? A person whose sole purpose is to watch Linux? MS must really be scared or simply wants to quash everything. . .

    "Competitive Manager" is an oxy-moron. . .perhaps "Anti-competitive Manager" would be more appropriate :). My favorite is still 'Dodge Ram'.

  3. WINE discourages native Linux apps by Metrollica · · Score: 1, Redundant

    WINE should be stopped, it hurts Linux from meeting its full potential. Sure it is nice to run Windows programs on Linux and everyone would like to do that but it discourages developers from creating programs for Linux (either ported or native). WINE only helps benefit Microsoft by giving them more software for their operating system. For Linux to truely win it must have its own large base of programs.

    It is easy to port software with only 2 common base OS's--all the *NIXs and Windows. Programs can easily be recompiled and run between all the *NIX systems so it is no biggie to port Windows software.

    What about programs that will never get ported like MS Office? Well, I do not see a need for it since StarOffice is as good if not better. There is already OSS on Linux that mirrors Windows'. Anything that comes out of Redmond can be matched by programmers coding in their spare time.

    The WINE team will be burdened by having to up implement Windows features. If they do not keep up they will fall behind and be blamed for the small ammount of software on Linux.

    There will always be problems with Windows problems because of bugs in the APIs that some programs depend on so again WINE is a problem.

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    --Metrollica