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[fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Derek Fountain)]

> If it requires Wine, then it isn't a native Linux prog, or even a
> "port".
> Wine seems to be the way some companies are going to try to "hedge their
> bets" when it comes to the Linux community. No good for me!
> Personally, I use Linux because of its' obvious stability and code
> maturity. Why would I want to "emulate" the very OS that I left in order
> to gain those benefits?

You're cutting your nose off to spite your face. If a
program has been compiled with winelib, then it *is* a
native Linux application. The code will be be ANSI C or C++,
it will have been compiled on a Linux platform with gcc/g++,
and it will have been linked with a GUI library which has
been coded by UNIX experts to work with X on UNIX. The
design of the GUI API comes from Redmond, but it's still a
native Linux application.

Winelib is an excellent tool. It doesn't "emulate" anything
- WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Perhaps you
should learn your facts before you criticise? I spent some
time on the Corel stand at the recent LinuxExpo in London.
Apart from an uncomfortable startup time, which they are
working on, all their applications work really well. I saw
the usual office suite and a beta of CorelDraw-9. These are
seriously good programs. I tried hard to crash them but
failed. Ventura Publisher will be ready in a few months and
that will be pretty unique on Linux too. If we want to see
Quicken, Dreamweaver, etc., winelib is the easy, and
probably only, way to get them.

In general, there's not much wrong with many Windows
applications. Some vendor's produce exceptionally high
standards of code. The fact it runs on a flakey OS doesn't
mean it's a bad application, and there's 0 bytes of that
flakey OS code in winelib.

Just because you don't like an idea you clearly don't
understand doesn't mean you should reject it. And if you do
choose to reject it, think before prejudicing others with
your uninformed opinions.


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Derek Fountain             |  "Microsoft have performed an
IBM Labs, Hursley, UK      |   illegal operation and will
fountai at hursley.ibm.com |   be shut down"
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