WooHoo get a load of this :-)

Tom Wickline twickline at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 13:10:43 CDT 2005


On 9/21/05, Ivan Leo Puoti <ivanleo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Wickline wrote:
> > 4. System becomes the property of SpecOpS Laboratories.
>
> Oh yeah, someone writes a full windows API implementation in a month or so, capable of replacing an
> OS that generates 1 billion US dollars a month in revenue, beating over a decade of  open source
> wine development, and sells it to SpecOpS Laboratories for 10k, that's sure going to happen.
> I think anybody with the means to do that would make it open source, or sell it to the highest bidder.

I agree, I thought this was some kind of joke.. 10k? 10k isn't squat..
I use to blow more than 10k a year on beer and party. But Ive been
sent a couple links that show that there
is interest in there offerings.

http://www.turbolinux.com/cgi-bin/newsrelease/index.cgi?date2=20050821173249&mode=syosai
http://www.specopslabs.com/content/ibm-loi.pdf

I just hope they turn out to be good members in the OSS community and
give back to Wine as they have taken from it.

Tom
>
> Ivan.
>



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