[Wine] will darwine a big threats to bill gates? or a big helper?

[Charles Davis]

On 10/23/10 7:18 PM, bacchus wrote:
> 1)  darwine helps linux with enough applications on none-x86 machines.
> user can drop windows/x86 away.
No. Darwine is dead, and is for Mac OS X, not Linux. The underlying UNIX
part of Mac OS X is called "Darwin"--that's why porting Wine to Mac OS X
was called "Darwine" (before Macs switched to x86 processors).
> 2) when linux people are used to windows applications on those machines.
> microsoft claims to compile vista to those machines.
> microsoft gets the world of those machines .
No they won't. a) Vista is (all but) dead. It's been replaced by Windows
7. b) By the time your first statement becomes true, it will be too late
for Windows. After all, if Linux (or whatever non-Windows OS they're
running) works for them, why bother switching to Windows, especially if
it has nothing to offer over it?

Chip