I'd say that attitutudes might change, though. 
For example, he is mentioning photoshop(of course) which I use at home under 
win. 
It works great there.

There are only a few quirks with the installation:
1. it need 1.1.17 to work
2. a DLL is needed for the text-tool to work.
3. A winetricks has to be done.

When those things are fixed(I guess 1. is the most important), gradually more 
people will start using wine, hence acceptance will grow, and eventually even 
Mark Shuttleworth will come around.
If I were the leader of the wine project, the moment photoshop CS4 works all 
the way, that would be the basis of the next stable version(to avoid regessions 
to the highest degree).. 
I believe that the popularity of wine(yes, popularity is extra important for a 
FOSS project) would skyrocket.
Then it would be a toy no more.

//Nicklas

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Remco
Sent: den 6 maj 2009 01:35
To: Ben Klein
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Shuttleworth on Wine

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Ben Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/5/6 nn <[email protected]>:
>>
>> And the slashdot thread:
>> Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/05/1546230
>
> This is nothing new. It's just now we have a celebrity saying it.

Not only that. Canonical has decided a few years ago that Wine would
not be included for this reason. [1] So it's really really really old
news.

Remco

[1] http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/11/1220219&art_pos=4




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