What would most aid WINE development?

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sat Nov 19 15:06:53 CST 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 14:13 -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
> Wine absolutely needs a huge investment of
> time and money.  But it's had a huge investment
> of time from the folks reading this list
> (as well as others).  Further, it's fair to say that
> every CodeWeavers employee and customer continues to invest
> a subtantial sum of money into Wine as well,
> not to mention the many other organizations that
> contribute money towards Wine, either directly or indirectly.
> 
> Can we use *more* money and time?  You bet, and that
> would be great.  Further, the money needed to
> make a substantial dent would be trivial compared
> to its strategic impact.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
> 
As a back of the envelope form of calculation, I'd be willing to bet
that an amount of money injected into Wine roughly equivalent to the
price of several fancy lawyers would be more than adequate to greatly
speed Wine development and make this question moot ;)

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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