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Robert Shearman rob at codeweavers.com
Mon Dec 19 08:26:03 CST 2005


Peter Beutner wrote:

> Dmitry Timoshkov schrieb:
>
>> "Peter Beutner" <p.beutner at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>>>> Wine is a very good way of testing the waters with a Linux market. 
>>>> If a significant part of the market share starts coming from Linux 
>>>> or other Unix operating systems then the company can start offering 
>>>> winelib extensions that integrate better with the environment in 
>>>> which they are running.
>>>
>>>
>>> I doubt that this will happen. If the windows version works with 
>>> wine the company will more likely continue to work on that. See your 
>>> money argument.
>>
>>
>> Another myth about Wine.
>
> Glad to hear that. So there are already companies shipping winelib 
> extensions for their products?


I know of at least one company that was considering this for interfacing 
their software with a USB hardware device that the software shipped with.

-- 
Rob Shearman




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