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Re: Petition for WINE

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From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject	Re: Petition for WINE
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Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> writes:
> Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>Am 09.07.2012 18:09, schrieb Lew Pitcher:
>>> On Monday 09 July 2012 11:09, in comp.os.linux.development.system,
>>> tim@server.invalid wrote:
>>> 
>>> [snipped link to petition to ask winehq to somehow cut off reactos]
>>
>>No no, I think this petition wants reactos developers should join Wine
>>project.
>
> Let me point out some of the flaws in this plan.
>
> 1. Yours is a religious argument, not a technical argument.  Windows is
> provably NOT a "horrible OS".

What people precisely consider to be 'a horrible OS' is very much a
matter of opinion.

> Marketing alone is not sufficient to explain 95% market share.

And '95% market share' is no indication of any particular quality
(there earth wasn't flat by the time '95%' of all people were still
convinced that it was). Also, people don't buy Windows. They get it
bundled with hardware they buy.

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Petition for WINE Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> - 2012-07-09 17:09 +0200
  Re: Petition for WINE Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> - 2012-07-09 15:26 +0000
  Re: Petition for WINE Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-07-09 12:09 -0400
    Re: Petition for WINE Tim Ritberg <tim@server.invalid> - 2012-07-09 18:49 +0200
      Re: Petition for WINE Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-07-09 22:32 -0700
        Re: Petition for WINE Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-07-10 14:21 +0100
          Re: Petition for WINE Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-07-10 21:07 +0000
  Re: Petition for WINE Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:33 +0200
    Re: Petition for WINE Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-07-23 15:18 +0100

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