Reality check

[John Smith]

>If your business depends upon getting a Wine bug fixed,
>From my perspective, the only thing that depends upon getting a Wine bug 
fixed, is making Wine a decent competitor to Windows on desktop in, say, 3 
years (let's be optimistic).

>including the one I work for) that can do this for you.
BTW, you might be able to clarify how it can happen that Crossover (derived 
from LGPL-ed WINE, if I understand it correctly) doesn't have one of these 
bugs, but WINE does? I used to think that LGPL requires availability of 
modified source, and therefore WINE developers should be able to 'backport'
bugfixes from CrossOver to WINE, shouldn't they?

>From: Mike McCormack <mike at codeweavers.com>
>To: John Smith <devel8421 at hotmail.com>
>CC: wine-devel at winehq.org
>Subject: Re: Reality check
>Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:57:02 +0900
>
>
>John Smith wrote:
>>THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN GETTING BUG FIXED IS TO GET SOMEBODY WORK ON 
>>IT.
>
>If your business depends upon getting a Wine bug fixed, then you should pay 
>somebody to work on the problem.  There are several companies (including 
>the one I work for) that can do this for you.
>
>Mike

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