Why Wine is like playing the guitar

[Roland]

At 01:14 AM 3/20/02 -0800, Steven Edwards wrote:
> > "this software is
> > designed to run the following:
> >       MS Word
> >       Lotus Notes
> >       Quicken"
>
>You really have two tasks at hand.
>1. Running some windows apps
>2. Moving People off of Windows Apps

I don't see number 2 as a task. Our goal is to just implement task 1. Task 
2 has nothing to do with WINE primarily. There are some Windows Apps that 
have no Linux equivalent, think of all the games...


>1. Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.)
>2. Internet Explorer.
>3. AOL
>4. TuboTax
>5. Quicken/QuickBooks
>6. Lotus Notes
>7. All of the P2P software
>8. Juno
>9. Act
>10. The Palm Desktop

Plus tons of games

Roland