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No WINE Before Its Time
Joe Barr writes "Stephen Feller has a story about WINE on NewsForge this morning ahead of next week's expected Beta release. The WINE project is 12 years old, so it's just about time." From the article: "'Wine has historically had a very frustrating history because it has been alpha software,' White said. 'This is really hard work. We're replicating the work of a billion-dollar company. The reason we're saying it's alpha is because we believe we still have fundamental changes to make on the way the internals work.' Noting that it has not always been easy to install software with Wine's alpha releases over the last decade, White said that once you got something working it has never meant it would continue to do so, or do so properly. There may have been display glitches or things not functioning properly, if a program even worked with Wine at all." OSTG is the parent company of both Slashdot and NewsForge.
Honestly why would anyone running OSX give a crap about WINE? Aside from the fact that WINE is and has been the greatest waste of time in the entire software world OSX also has all the apps anyone could ask for. The relative handful that aren't available for the Mac are in all likelyhood going to also be the ones that stand the least chance of running well in WINE.
We can already play Solitaire on the Mac, thanks anyway.
I never understood the effort put forth to make software designed for Windows run on Linux when there is obviously so much needed to still be done to Linux itself. Instead of figuring out a way to run their applications badly why not create some original applications that do the same thing? WINE is programmers wanking when they should be working.