Is Wine a platform for Codeweaver to make money?! Please help me understand.

[Stefan Dösinger]

> I doubt that, if they were to do that they are still more likely to go
> the route of putting them in the system directory and doing a global
> override because its easier.
>
> > I agree we probably won't loose much, but I'm not sure what we're going
> > to win, apart from easier dll overrides.
>
> 1. Fewer lousy bug reports because when the bug is reported it will be
> more concise.
Reports of problems with a whole load of binary blobs loaded. Native DLLs CAN 
help, but do not have to. Like native DCOM. It sometimes helps, but it can 
also do undocumented and unimplemented operations.

Often native dlls instead of builtin ones cause problems.
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