[Wine] Banned for different viewpoint

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 17:00:30 CST 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, YeOldeFarte <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Greetings!  I was just banned from the #winehq channel on freenode for suggesting to a newbie that he use winetricks to install directx 9c.  I was told that winetricks is for developers and that installing directx this way can damage your wine install.
>     I am currently using the latest developers version of wine with directx 9c installed and configured with the latest winetricks.  I am playing the latest Civilization 4 expansion pack with no problems whatsoever on Ubuntu 8.10.
>    I resent getting banned for accurate information and think that channel bans should be reserved for obscene or abusive behavior only.
>    Thank you for tolerating this rant.
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Who banned you?

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-Austin



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