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Jeremy White on WINE Installer Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the assimilation dept.

polar_bear` writes "Last week, CodeWeavers issued a "Installer Challenge" to improve Wine "until it can run nearly every Windows program." Linux Magazine interviewed CodeWeavers Founder and CEO Jeremy White about the challenge, Wine on OS X on Intel, the Linux desktop and what is ahead for CodeWeavers. White has some pretty interesting answers."

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  1. Good Luck by BinaryLobster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even Windows has problems with that task.

  2. This Jeremy guy cracks me up... by fodi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is he on drugs, or what? He can barely string together a coherent sentence, let alone manage to simplify a project like Wine.... From the article: What we're doing right now, is we've spent a great deal of energy over the last year, sort of a lot of unsexy, dirty, nasty, grinding work that has the very sexy, exciting work that has the result that we believe many applications will install, and we believe that those that won't install will be very easy to get install. We're very hopeful that with this, if we can get some community participation and community help that we can go from right now, where you have a 50-50 chance having an app install, maybe a bit less than that, to you're pretty sure that your app will install.
    If anyone out there can decipher what he's on about, please help !!

  3. A price quote from TFA... by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Sometimes what we do is really a dirty job. We let people run IE on Linux, and that's just sick and wrong..."

    I'd be apt to agree...

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