Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > Just small remark.. > >> A few years ago a new Linux distribution came along. It was called >> "Lindows", and it promised to use Wine in order to run your existing >> Windows applications on it. A couple of years later the company decided >> that Wine was not getting there, and stopped sponsoring any more work on >> it. Is that also an evil thing to do? > > Actually this was a pure hype from the Lindows sales team (and Michael > Robertson) to run your existing apps. Well, yes and no. It was hype in that Lindows never delivered. It wasn't in that Lindows did invest money (maybe through CodeWeavers, I was not close to Wine at the time) in Wine. That was, really, the point I was trying to make. When it suited their commercial interest they did. When it didn't - they didn't. > Few months later, I talked to Jeremy White (CEO of CodeWeavers), Yes, I vaguely remember an email from him saying something to the effect of "Thank you for doing Hebrew in Wine so that you can get Hetz off my back" :-) > They NEVER promised to let you run all > your existed applications in your windows partition. Well, not promised, but certainly insinuated. > Thanks, > Hetz Shachar
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