Well a lot of gamers use wine, wine is meant to be a general "run this windows app" program where as Codeweavers, and Cedega work case by case with teams to get specific apps working. If you have a bug, submit it, otherwise add data to bugs in the DB, and eventually it will all work out.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sasan Iman</b> <<a href="mailto:iman@simantis.com">iman@simantis.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>First of all, let me say that I am not a developer. But I have been<br>interested in Wine since early 2003. The thing that has always made me<br>scratch my head is that the Windows software that motivates me to<br>
install Wine on my linux system (i.e. MS OFfice, etc.) has never worked<br>with wine in a reliable manner. Meanwhile, Codeweaver has always had MS<br>Office working on Wine.<br><br>Now shouldn't getting the most common windows software working on Wine
<br>in an idiot-proof (meaning I can get it to work) manner be the highest<br>priority for Wine developers? Instead, this is left to CodeWeavers and<br>others.<br><br>I know that if you fiddle around with the stock release long enough you
<br>can get MS Office working on Wine as I have on a number of occasions,<br>but shouldn't making this work for everyone be the highest priority for<br>getting Wine to be adopted more widely?! Or is Wine more targeted to
<br>gamers which is mostly what I read about on WineHQ?<br><br>I just can't understand why the more common application are left to a<br>commercial company. My conspiratorial side makes me want to think this<br>is a conspiracy but I am sure there is valid technical and logistical
<br>reasons for it so I am asking you guys.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Sasan<br><br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br>Bryan