[Bug 2082] DirectDraw games only showing black screen

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082





--- Comment #38 from Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at>  2007-12-15 19:10:06 ---
(In reply to comment #37)
> So say I want some bugs fixed (not workarounds, but
> fixes in order to make the api behave as the MS implementation),
> by paying wine developers to do that. 
> I think there _is_ a company behind wine. So do you have 
> anything in place? Is paying for each bug enough to 
> generate the commercial interest in fixing them?
This is discussed quite often, but there is no real bugfix bounty system. The
problem with it is that getting a bug fixed is quite expensive in the end. At
codeweavers we have some metric that fixing a minor bug costs us between
1000-1500 USD, which is way too much for a user to offer for a bugfix.

One might argue that such bounties sum up, but unfortunately, everyone wants a
different bug fixed. The problem of Wine is that it has such a broad aim, so
everyone has different problems he wants fixed.

So my personal way of dealing with this is that if I do not have any specific
apps to get running, I'm implementing missing features without focusing on
specific application, or I am picking random bugs, but that is rather rare
though.


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