Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > Jean Louis <g...@rcdrun.com> writes: >> Put yourself in the view point of free software user. What such user is >> going to do with WINE? > > WINE has at least one useful purpose for a free software developer: to > help them develop and test Windows ports of their software compiled with > MingW. > > For example, it is important for GNU Guile to run on Windows because > programs that already depend on Guile (e.g. GNU Lilypond), and programs > that we hope will use Guile in the future (e.g. GNU Emacs) include ports > for Windows. The Windows ports of both of the aforementioned programs > are useful for introducing the free software movement to Windows users.
I wondered about this at the time WINE was submitted and I came to the same conclusion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00333.html > MAME is a different case. FWIW, here's a Parabola ticket on the > question of MAME: > > https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/961 > > I'd like to know if there are any free programs that can be run under > MAME and cannot be run natively on GNU/Linux. Can anyone answer this > question? It would also be useful to know whether people are using/trying to use the hardware MAME emulates to run free software on it, whether there are reverse-engineering efforts that would likely benefit from it, etc. IOW, can we conceivably think of use cases other than running non-free games? Thanks, Ludo’.
