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There have been recent reports about programs from Israel, Canada, and The Philippines that let you run Windows software in Linux. Are they really new? Can they succeed? Is this whole effort worth the time and trouble going into it? CodeWeavers CEO and Wine maven Jeremy White ought to know, since he's been working to bring Windows software to Linux users for many years -- with quite a bit of success. We'll forward 10 - 12 of the highest moderated questions posted here to Jeremy, and run his answers as soon as we get them back.
Do you faithfully reproduce the way windows kinda stops when you put a cd in the drive? It's a very comfortable feeling when your mouse pointer freezes and for a second you think you will have to reboot. Windows users like that consistency. How do you lock-up the linux desktop for a few seconds? Do you have separate versions of the temporary lock-up program for KDE and gnome?
This is a conspiracy by Windows and SCO to ruin Linux!!!
"Do you think it would be a good idea that programs running under wine look and feel more like native programs?"
No. It would be a complete waste of time. People must learn to live with diversity.
That sounds about like the functional ability of ms office. Oh wait, you were describing OOo. OOo 1.1 can do things that cause msofficeXp to choke up and die. [Actually, XP itself gets the blue screen of death.]
The "problems" you describe sound like stylesheets were not being used correctly. OOo requires stylesheets to be used for everything. MSOffice has yet to learn what a style sheet is, much less how they are used.
Revision control is in OOo. DRM is not in OOo. If you need encrypted files, GUPGP and a macro make OOo documents secure. There are a couple of one key mactos that encrypt and save a file in OOo.
The database in OOo sucks, but MySQL installation is relatively straightforward. msoffice does have slightly faster CJKV text input, than OOo has.]
Which explains why msoffice blows up, and my computer has the blue screen of death, when I write my book. The same text, in OOo causes no problems.
I can write one page of text in OOo in five minutes. The same page, using ms office, takes three hours if msoffice doesn't crash, winxp doesn't give me the blue screen of death.
Amber
Wind Beneath Thy Wings
It's Open Source you fucking idiot; anybody can take it, rename it "Daves Windows-Running-Thing" if they like and sell it for three thousand dollars and a blowjob; if people are crazy enough to pay for it, that's upto them. Provided they stick to the licence there's nothing wrong in what they're doing.