On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:45:13AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > Jeremy White wrote: > > We've already discussed the concern with the InstallShield > > related patches of Transgaming; I won't belabor > > that now. But doesn't it bother anyone else that > > Marcus spent 5 weeks redoing work that they already had? > > Wouldn't you rather be able to better play Monkey Island instead? > > Wine is a _re_implementation .. 90% of the code we write is double > work, triple work sometimes .. It doesn't bother me that we had to > rewrite something, since after all that is what we do.. Wouldn't we have > it easy is Microsoft would just release their source? The real question > is, if Wine was GPL'd would TransGaming have written the DCOM code in > the first place?
Someone would have sooner or later (most likely later) due to the immense pressure on getting IShield v6 running. Ciao, Marcus
