SV: Installing MS Office gives error in installer

[Christian Jiresjö]

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>On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 11:39, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

>> As for others who tries to install Office 2000 with Wine CVS -
>> nice try, but  you'll need to do tons of tricks in order to
>> install it. running: wine  setup.exe won't do the trick. If you
>> want to run Office 2000, then please  don't behave cheaply - go
>> pay the $50 to Codeweavers for their excellent  product - they
>> give all their modifications back and your money supports them  in
>> order to continue developing Wine..

>cheaply? Im sure this is an OOS Project, are we all leaches upon the
>linux community?...I feel a little cheap since I downloaded a couple
>of Debain ISO's without paying for them. We use Wine to test out
>Windows Apps in Wine...so its no great surprise Office 2000 has
>become an issue.
I think his point was that codeweavers is doing a good job which
includes
giving back to the mother project and deserve to get paid for it. No
one is
forcing you to pay for anything that is opensource but even people
who work
on opensource have to eat.

>> This is the same issue for Transgaming's WineX - want to run full
>> game? then  subscribe and support them please..
>>
>> And if you want to flame me - my email is right here - fire away.

>Scenerio: What *If* I (or someone else) had a few sane bug fixes,
>that allowed Office 2000 to work? What would happen?, "Umm sorry we
>cant
>commit this....because we feel you're too cheap to buy Codeweavers
>great product!"
I have no doubt that they would be accepted by everyone including
codeweavers.
If you have such fixes then post them and discover.

>Fixing Issues such as getting Office 2000 to work  should be in the
>same catagory as fixing support for any other App using wine. And it
>*shouldnt* be delyed just because it "Office 2000". Im Getting the
>feeling the codeweavers is failing to commit any code that would
>promote any *decent* workable progress of Office 2000 using Wine
>CVS.
Codeweavers give stuff back in a pace that is okay with them. Just as
the rest
of the companies involved in winedevel gives back in their pace. Wine
is probably
not strong enough market to live on that writing customsolutions for
companies can be
the only source of income. Codeweavers have to make money to live as
well so why
should they be singled out to give all their code back rigth now and
not
someone else just because their product involves an app that some
people
consider a killer app. Only reason for choosing them might be that
they were pro LGPL switch
Why don't you blame transgamming for sitting on their code untill
they are paid for
it or xandros and lindows for what ever they keep from commiting.

Those are my thoughts.

>Those are my thoughts anyway..
>-mdew

Mvh
Christian Jiresjö
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