Shuttleworth on Wine

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Tue May 5 18:37:31 CDT 2009


2009/5/6 Remco <remco47 at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Basically, what Shuttleworth is saying is that running Windows apps (whether
>> via Wine or via porting) is unimportant to Ubuntu (or the opensource world in
>> general)
>
> He uses the word important, not unimportant. But he also says that the
> interviewer missed the third aspect that is important: good free
> software itself.

Reading between the lines here. "They're both important, but what's
REALLY important is ..."

He can't really shout the interviewer down and say "you're missing the
point entirely" directly. That's bad PR. :)



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