Wine at LinuxTag in Berlin

[Henri Verbeet]

On 6 February 2014 10:29, Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> That would be true if Wine was universally viewed as important. However
> there is a sentiment among free software radicals that because Wine
> makes it possible to run Windows applications (which are viewed as 100%
> non open-source), it's bad for Linux, open-source software, etc. So this
> title just confirms that sentiment and is thus not necessarily
> provocative (except on a Wine mailing list).
>
That was perhaps true at some point, but I have the impression that
these days the sentiment is more that "Valve and Icculus are going to
fix Linux gaming, nobody uses Wine for anything else anyway, and Free
Software is just this thing that makes it harder for them to do so."