Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-29 Thread Kai Blin
On Monday 29 June 2009 07:51:03 Austin English wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blinkai.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Realistically, there will be a contract involved regulating what needs to be done to get the money. I very much doubt the government just go and drop money on

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-29 Thread Scott Ritchie
Kai Blin wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 07:51:03 Austin English wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blinkai.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Realistically, there will be a contract involved regulating what needs to be done to get the money. I very much doubt the government just go and drop

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-29 Thread Austin English
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Kai Blinkai.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 07:51:03 Austin English wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blinkai.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Realistically, there will be a contract involved regulating what needs to be done to get the

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-29 Thread Kai Blin
On Monday 29 June 2009 08:40:47 Austin English wrote: Now what I understood you're suggesting is that instead of contracting a company or individual, the client could give the money to a Wine Foundation. How is that money going to turn into the code the client wants to have? Is the Wine

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-29 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Scott Ritchiesc...@open-vote.org wrote: Kai Blin wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 07:51:03 Austin English wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blinkai.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Realistically, there will be a contract involved regulating what needs to

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
Kai Blin wrote: On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:16:42 Dan Kegel wrote: If anyone's at LinuxTag, maybe it would be worth wandering over to Halle 7.2a, Stand 111 and chat the projects up to see if any of them have any interest in Wine... Ah, damn, that was like a day late. I won't make it in time

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-28 Thread Ben Klein
2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org: Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to give it to us? Codeweavers?

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-28 Thread Austin English
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ben Kleinshackl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org: Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to give it to us? Codeweavers? Is a private for-profit company. Is there something wrong with putting it in the Wine

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-28 Thread Scott Ritchie
Austin English wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ben Kleinshackl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org: Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to give it to us? Codeweavers? Is a private for-profit company. Is there something wrong with

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-28 Thread Kai Blin
On Monday 29 June 2009 01:22:00 Austin English wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ben Kleinshackl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org: Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to give it to us? Codeweavers? Is a private for-profit company.

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-28 Thread Austin English
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kai Blinkai.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 01:22:00 Austin English wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ben Kleinshackl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org: Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to

Re: Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-27 Thread Kai Blin
On Saturday 27 June 2009 02:16:42 Dan Kegel wrote: If anyone's at LinuxTag, maybe it would be worth wandering over to Halle 7.2a, Stand 111 and chat the projects up to see if any of them have any interest in Wine... Ah, damn, that was like a day late. I won't make it in time today. However,

Anyone at LinuxTag?

2009-06-26 Thread Dan Kegel
According to http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bund-foerdert-Open-Source-Projekte--/meldung/141175 Germany's going to put 20 million euros into open source. They'll probably throw it all down a rathole, but hey, maybe some small fraction will go to useful projects. If anyone's at LinuxTag, maybe it