<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Hello</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Please take the following not personal but the huge pent-up frustration constrains me to say a few words.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">I've just tested one of my "longest waiting" apps to get working on linux: CorelDraw X3/X4. And I had to see that</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">it fails already with the same errors. I tooke a short look into the bug database to see all the related bugs:</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687</a> open (not even confirmed) since more than 3 years</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14123">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14123</a> open since 2008-06-25</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3599">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3599</a> open (new) since 2005-10-15</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a
href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611</a> open (new) since 2005-10-17</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">I know we had this discussion already a lot of times but after six acc. </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">three years its time for me to say something again. </div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">I know also thats a lot more fun developing directx routines instead of fixing old bugs but</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">sometimes You should also think about the "other" generality which uses the computer not</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">just to play games.</div><div
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">It would be understandeable to me if its written in the bug that the fix of this bug will consume a lot of resources and its </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">impossible to fix this, but just to ignore it is not "the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">proper way to behave".</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;
font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">I'm sure that there are many more of the above bugs which nobody has has ever took </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">seriously </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">a lock at it. </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Has anybody ever imagined how many apps depending on such bugs which prevents them
to get running on Linux?</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Maybe all of the above bugs are only related to CorelDraw but its also possible that dozens or hundrets of other apps</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">also fail with the same problems but nobody has ever wrote a bug r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">eport or saw it in the bug database and
thought</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">that it will be fixed cause its already reported?</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Just take a look at: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a
href="http://www.inside-it.ch/frontend/insideit?_d=_article&site=ic&news.id=22515">http://www.inside-it.ch/frontend/insideit?_d=_article&site=ic&news.id=22515</a></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">English version: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1122655">http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1122655</a></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The most of their problems where related to special windows apps running only in goverment institutions and where not able to run on Linux (wine).</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">How many of these problems whould not even ever have been occured if such small bugs like the above whoud be fixed which makes all of
those</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">apps runnable on linux. Sorry to say that but Your politics just to develop things which makes fun or are interesting is also part of the above problem. </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Regards</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Roland</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
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