> Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > > > Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Changelog: > > > > Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (for Corel) > > > > > > I'm sure there must be other people than me wondering... > which Alexandre > > > is this who needs to have his patch submitted to Wine by > someone else? > > > > It is the Alexandre-working-on-behalf-of-Corel, not the > > Alexandre-hacking-Wine-on-his-own-time; they are quite different > > animals. > > I just found an article in LinuxToday (I think, I reach it from Alan > Cox's uk.linux.org, but the links has been updates in the meanwhile, I > guess that was a Friday's article) talking about Wine and Mozilla > turning into OSS freaks because Corel and Netscape fiddling > in, as they > should not respect the high level standards usual in OSS projects. I > believe any of the animals maybe should be interested about, as your > responsability as project leader to keep wine quality, and as a Corel > commited employee too. I read the article. However I don't remember much about since I quick dismissed it as I found that it was making unstansiated claims. Anyway here goes. IMHO comparing Netscape:s relation to Mozilla with Corel (or CodeWeavers for that matter) is misguided for a number of reasons. Among them: 1. Mozilla's license is biased towards Netscape 2. Mozilla was orginally developed by Netscape and then open sourced. 3. Netscape Navigator that share a large part of the code base with Mozilla are one of Netscape's main products Compare with Wine 1. Wine's license is not biased towards Corel (or CodeWeaver) 2. Wine was not originally developed by Corel (or CodeWeaver) 3. Wine is not one of Corel's (or CodeWeaver's) main products Actually I can't see any connection at all between Mozilla and Wine not shared by normal open source projects. I can see one reason each for not wanting to work with Mozilla or Wine, however they are not the same at all. Against Mozilla: Some potential developers might feel that they are working free for Netscape since the license is biased towards them. Against Wine: Some potential developers might feel that Wine hinders (or delays) companies like Corel making "real" Linux ports of their applications.
