Huge frustration

[Roland Kaeser]

Hello

Please take the following not personal but the huge pent-up frustration 
constrains me to say a few words.

I've just tested one of my "longest waiting" apps to get working on linux: 
CorelDraw X3/X4.  And I had to see that
it fails already with the same errors. I tooke  a short look into the bug 
database to see all the related bugs:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687        open (not even confirmed) 
since more than 3 years
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14123        open since 2008-06-25
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3599          open (new) since 2005-10-15
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611          open (new) since 2005-10-17

I know we had this discussion already a lot of times but after six acc. 
three years its time for me to say something again. 
I know also thats a lot more fun developing directx routines instead of fixing 
old bugs but
sometimes You should also think about the "other" generality which uses the 
computer not
just to play games.

It would be understandeable to me if its written in the bug that the fix of this 
bug will consume a lot of resources and its 
impossible to fix this, but just to ignore it is not "the proper way to behave".

I'm sure that there are many more of the above bugs which nobody has has ever 
took seriously a lock at it. 
Has anybody ever imagined how many apps depending on such bugs which prevents 
them to get running on Linux?
Maybe all of the above bugs are only related to CorelDraw but its also possible 
that dozens or hundrets of other apps
also fail with the same problems but nobody has ever wrote a bug report or saw 
it in the bug database and thought
that it will be fixed cause its already reported?

Just take a look 
at: http://www.inside-it.ch/frontend/insideit?_d=_article&site=ic&news.id=22515
English version:   http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1122655

The most of their problems where related to special windows apps running only in 
goverment institutions and where not able to run on Linux (wine).
How many of these problems whould not even ever have been occured if such small 
bugs like the above whoud be fixed which makes all of those
apps runnable on linux. Sorry to say that but Your politics just to develop 
things which makes fun or are interesting is also part of the above problem. 

Regards

Roland
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