> I meant gearheads in the nicest possible way, but gearheads usually lack
> business management skills, especially marketing skills. That's where the
> suits are useful and besides, that work keeps them, out of the labs. 8) My
I think your comment was clear to most Hoyt.
> professional plumbing work. I am not unappreciative of a deal and a good
> deal is good for both parties, but a low price does not make shoddy work
> acceptable, so I don't quite believe your reasoning applies.
Very well put.
> My impression is that politics has reared it's ugly head as two different
> groups handle X and the kernel. I think that NeTreverse has tried, but has
> probably run into "you're not open source" diatribe.
Then again, Mandrake distributes lots of commercial software with its
packages (eg - Partition Magic, Loki games, etc)
> Mandrake would be a logical choice to include the patches by default, but
> they have a competing product in the works -- plex86 -- and are probably
> not inclined to support NeTraverse. Too bad since everybody loses.
It may be the case that NeTraverse doesn't want to divulge much info
to them either if this is the case. It's also the case that
non-standard patches to the kernel can have very negative effects on
people's perceptions, especially those who don't understand what
kernels are. Elsewhere I've heard people say they won't use Win4Lin
because of its "non-standard" kernel? These people are, as they're
saying that, using a Mandrake kernel with non-standard reiserfs
support in it but somehow that's ok. It's a perception problem
> Perhaps a way to deal with it is to get volunteers to patch, test and
> produce kernel packages for a specific distro. They could be "rewarded" with
I believe that's what they've been doing with their v2 Beta program.
Not sure how productive some of this is becoming but it's nice to
finally be talking with some of you Win4Lin users. This list hasn't
had much traffic. Maybe we can keep the traffic level up and move it
to discussions of the product itself.
Cheers --- Larry
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