Re: If Linux is to succeed

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 Jan 1997 20:05:59 +0000 (GMT)


> Quote from my boss: "What the hell is taking [the WINE project] so long?
> Can they solve their problems if we just gave them money? We have to pay
> for dozens of Win95 licenses *anyway* so it's not like it makes a
> difference to us to give the money to someone else."

Wine and wabi are ultimately irrelevant. When one vendor controls an API
they simply wait until they day after a new Wine/Wabi comes out add
16 new features and use them heavily in their next upgrade to each package

Two months later nothing works again