Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.com
Mon Dec 17 13:54:46 CST 2001


Patrik Stridvall <ps at leissner.se> writes:

> So you mean that all the people that are current voluntering
> to work of Wine won't work on Wine if it is almost complete
> just because somebody else have done the parts they need
> to run their applications and that they will happily pay for
> the right to use it.

No, I'm not saying they won't work on it when it's almost complete.
I'm saying that there may not be enough incentive to complete it if
all the parts are available under more or less proprietary
licenses. Maybe I'm wrong, but your reasoning that it's OK for people
who want games to have to pay for it certainly doesn't reassure me.

> In that case it would be disasterous to make Wine run
> all Microsoft implemented non-core Wine DLL:s because
> then everybody would just be happy to use the Microsoft
> DLL:s and nothing beyond non-core would ever be
> implemented.

It would not be a disaster, but it is certainly a potential problem
too. It is a smaller problem first because making the dlls run is
about as much work as reimplementing them, and because they are
completely proprietary, not half-way open source. But yes, I do think
a number of features could have improved faster if people didn't use
native dlls to work around the problems.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com




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